I think you can turn on debugging by:

use SOAP::Lite 'trace', 'debug';

When you execute it you, should be able to see the SOAP message for your debugging

Well, that doesn't have much of anything to do with retrieving the request object

Thanks for the pointer to

So, essentially all I have to do is add the following to the top of my module and it adds a SOAP::SOM object to the variables passed to any method called as a SOAP service.

use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA = qw(Exporter SOAP::Server::Parameters);
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The additional variable allows access to the envelope which has a whole load of useful stuff in there including access to the request. And access to the request can be done like in the following example

sub mymethod{
    my $envelope = pop(@_);
    
    my $sample_id = $envelope->dataof("//sample_id")->value if(defined
+ $envelope->dataof("//sample_id"));
    my $match_id = $envelope->dataof("//match_id")->value if(defined $
+envelope->dataof("//match_id"));
}
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This is great as that means I can do my own verifying of the request data.