get custom attributes from an Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Item object

Question

I’m writing an Observer for manage the order’s items, I need to send an email for every order based on some custom attributes.

The item object is Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Item and searching around I’ve tried methods like getData(’my_code’), getCustomAttribute, getAttributeText without success.

I need to get the category, size, color and some custom attributes… Here my little code

class Example_OrderMod_Model_Observer{

  public function doSomething($observer){
    $order = $observer->getEvent()->getOrder();

    $id_ordine = $order->getRealOrderId();
    $cliente = $observer->getEvent()->getOrder()->getCustomerName();

    foreach ($order->getAllItems() as $item) {
    //$item is an instance of Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Item

      $quantita =  $item->getQtyOrdered();
      $codice_giglio =  $item->getSku();

      //echo $item->getData('size');
      var_dump($item->getAttributeText('size'));
      var_dump($item->getProductOptionByCode('size'));
      var_dump($item->getProductOptionByCode('famiglia'));

    }
//    die();
  }
}

any ideas?

many thanks

Answer 1

You'll probably want to load up the product object, and then get your data off of that object. That will allow you to utilize all the methods you are looking for:

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($item->getProductId());
$size = $product->getAttributeText('size');

Answer 2

If $item is instance of Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Item you could simply use:

$product = $item->getProduct();