Magento get Shipping collectRates() attributes in observer - magento

Question

In a shippingModule in the collectRates method, i have set up a few values:
$method->setCarrier('test_customrate');
$method->setCarrierTitle($this->getConfigData('title'));
$method->setMethod('test_customrate');
$method->setMethodTitle($this->getConfigData('name'));
$method->setPrice($this->getConfigData('price'));
$method->setCost(2);
$method->setUsername($this->getConfigData('username'));
$method->setPassword($this->getConfigData('password'));
$result->append($method);
Where are these values stored in the checkout session?
I can't find them anywhere.
I have now found that with the below mentioned code in the observer, i can get a couple of values back as mentioned above. However, some values like cost, username and password are not present here.
$rates = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote()->getShippingAddress()
->getShippingRatesCollection();
foreach ($rates as $rate) {
Mage::log($rate->getData());
}
this retrieves something of the following structure:
2013-06-01T15:36:10+00:00 DEBUG (7): Array
(
[rate_id] => 852
[address_id] => 93
[created_at] => 2013-06-01 15:36:06
[updated_at] => 2013-06-01 15:36:09
[carrier] => test_customrate
[carrier_title] => test_customrate
[code] => test_customrate_test_customrate
[method] => test_customrate
[method_description] =>
[price] => 0.0000
[method_title] => test123
[error_message] =>
)

Answer 1

I worked around this by simply getting the values directly from the shipping module config.
Like this:
Mage::getStoreConfig('section/group/field');
So I'm just getting the data from system.xml like i did in the collectRates().
However this is quite static and i would still prefer a method to get this straight from the order.
For now this fixes my problem. If anything knows any other ways feel free to answer