SAP PI : Check DataType in HTML!

As many of you already know that SimpleQuery allows you to access any ESR/ID object in raw xml or encoded form.

http://host:port/rep/support/SimpleQuery for ESR  Objects

http://host:port/dir/support/SimpleQuery for  ID Objects

But DataType has got special treatment. It allows displaying the details in HTML format as well.

Unfortunately HTML feature is available only for PI >=7.1. For PI < 7.0, you can display Data Type as xml like other objects.

P provides Data Type in HTML format as shown below.

http://host:port/rep/read/ext?method=XIHTML&TYPE=ifmtypedef&KEY=DataType|Namespace&VC=SWC&SWCGUID=SWCGUID&SP=-1&UC=true&release=7.0

R provides raw xml as usual as shown below:

http://host:port/rep/read/ext?method=PLAIN&TYPE=ifmtypedef&KEY=DataType|Namespace&VC=SWC&SWCGUID=SWCGUID&SP=-1&UC=true&release=7.0