Magento Quote Item object - how can I load item's options? - php

Question

While I know that I can just load Quote Item Options collection and filter it by item_id, I just can't wrap my mind around that Magento folks haven't added any _afterLoad or _loadOptions method to easily assign the options to an item, since there's already a _options, _optionsByCode properties...
to provide some example of what I'm doing:
// updated (forgot to actually load object
$item = Mage::getModel('sales/quote_item')->load($itemId);
$buyRequest = $item->getBuyRequest(); // almost empty, only qty is set
I want to know if there's some $item->loadOptions() method... or other native way to load options into an item
UPDATE
What I want to do: I want to load item object and use some native way to add its options to this loaded object.

Answer 1

I ended up using next piece of code
/** #var Mage_Sales_Model_Resource_Quote_Item_Option_Collection $options */
$options = Mage::getResourceModel('sales/quote_item_option_collection');
$options->addItemFilter($item->getId());
foreach ($options as $option) {
$item->addOption($option);
}
While I understand that it doesn't answer my question directly, I think there's just no method of loading options inside quote item.
So maybe someone will find the above piece of code useful.

Answer 2

Let's me share what I can do for my case to get cart item option, here is my piece of code:
foreach ($item->getOptions() as $option) {
if ($option->getCode() == 'info_buyRequest') {
$values = unserialize($option->getValue()); // to array object
// lookup custom option
if ($values && array_key_exists('options', $values)) {
//
}
}
}
As above code, I get all options of cart/quote item and lookup to find the code of info_buyRequest which stores the buying option of the item. My case, I was trying to look for the custom option of product that bought.
Note: You can check your item array data via: $item->getData() so that we can understand the structure of the data output.

Answer 3

In my case, I am adding additional options to the quote item in an observer. These options are not saved on the product in the backend as they are created dynamically.
In the cart, you can then simply use:
$quoteItem = someMethodToGetYourQuoteItem();
$quoteItem->getBuyRequest()->getYouroption();

Answer 4

Well right now you instantiate a new quote item object without any data. If you would load an actual quote item, you can use the function getOptions to retrieve all the options associated with the quote item.
What is it you want to do exactly?