@INC problem with SOAP::Lite

[john_oshea]

Hi all,

I'm hoping one of you kind souls can point out where, exactly, I'm being a bit dim, as the problem I have, well it just has to be something really simple, but I just can't see it...

I have a SOAP server:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;

$|++;

my $daemon = SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon
                -> new( LocalAddr => 'localhost', LocalPort => 8080, R
+euse => 1 )
                -> dispatch_to('/Users/johno/Code/DCI/Wordbank-DCI-Ser
+ver/lib');

print STDERR "SOAP server startup at ", $daemon->url, "\nServer INC:",
+ join(' ', @INC), "\n";

$daemon->handle;

...which is called from the following client:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

#use SOAP::Lite +trace => ['all', '-transport'];
use SOAP::Lite;

my $soap = SOAP::Lite->new(
    uri         => 'http://DCI/Wordbank::DCI::Server',
    proxy       => 'http://10.1.1.50:8080/Server',
    on_fault    => sub { my($soap, $res) = @_;
                        die ref $res ? $res->faultdetail : $soap->tran
+sport->status, "\n";
                       });

print $soap->hello()->result, "\n";

...and the server calls the following module:

package Wordbank::DCI::Server;

use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA = qw(SOAP::Server::Parameters);

use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;

sub hello {
    my $self = shift;
    print STDERR 'Module INC: ', join(' ', @INC), "\n";
    return "Hello, world\n";
}    
1;

All of which works perfectly, calls the hello method, and prints out quite a reasonable @INC value. Until I add in use Data::Dumper immediately after the use Carp line in the module, at which point I get the following (excerpted) error when I turn tracing on:

<soap:Fault><faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode><faultstring>Failed to a
+ccess class (Wordbank::DCI::Server): Can't locate Data/Dumper.pm in @
+INC (@INC contains: /Users/johno/Code/DCI/Wordbank-DCI-Server/lib) at
+ /Users/johno/Code/DCI/Wordbank-DCI-Server/lib/Wordbank/DCI/Server.pm
+ line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/johno/Code/DCI/Wordbank-DC
+I-Server/lib/Wordbank/DCI/Server.pm line 9.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 98) line 3.
</faultstring><faultactor>http://localhost:8080/</faultactor></soap:Fa
+ult>

...i.e. it appears that @INC is getting zapped to only contain the current module's directory. I can't even use lib... something to get around it as it can't use 'lib'.

Can anyone reproduce this? Am I being a complete klutz? Hay-ulp...

(OSX 10.4.8, Perl 5.8.8, SOAP::Lite 0.69)

Update:

Thanks to both almut and Ultra for both speedy and accurate replies.