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How to find list of options from Express Dropdown attribute

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Something else that I'm spending far too long trying to find out so hopefully someone else knows and has suffered the pain for me...

I know the handle of my express entity and one of its option attributes. How do I get a list of the defined values from the attribute?

I have done this elsewhere with option attributes (e.g. page) but I can't find specifically how to get the attribute from the Express object. Can't find any documentation (plus ca change...)
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surefyre
I finally got lucky having resorted to recursively grepping the whole /concrete dir for 'attribute.*byhandle'. Less than ideal.

To get a list of dropdown options from an Entity's option Attribute I did this:
$attr = \Express::getObjectByHandle('dblsession')->getAttributeKeyCategory()->getByHandle('session_course_type'); // gets the attribute
        $atc = $attr->getController();
        $options = $atc->getOptions();       
        $course_types = [];
        foreach ($options as $v) {
            $course_types[] = (string)$v;
        }


$course_types ends up with the available options in it.