Is there an easy way to determine the field type of a GlideElement?

[akaupisch]

In my server side code, I want to determine if a field is typeof phone number, then do formatting on it. The best I've come up with is:

gr.getElement('phone').getED().internalType =='ph_phone'

but this seems really kludgy. Is there any exposed API that will do what I'm looking for? so far I haven't found any...

[sergiu_panaite · Accepted solution]

That's the way I know it as well and that' show it's documented as well:

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/kingston-application-development/page/app-store/dev_portal/API_reference/GlideElement_global/concept/c_GlideElementAPI.html#ariaid-title19

See example in the documentation:

var fields = current.getFields();
for (i=0; i<fields.size(); i++) { 
  var field = fields.get(i);
  var descriptor = field.getED(); 
  gs.print("type=" + descriptor.getType() + 
    " internalType=" + descriptor.getInternalType()); 
}

[akaupisch]

Thanks, was hoping there'd be a better way. Kinda lame if you have to look it up each time what each field type translates to