Issue #16856 has been updated by R.I. Pienaar.

Status changed from Investigating to Needs More Information

I've updated my pull request incorporating these items and the stuff from the 
list about the default hierarchy.

the problem with the backend only being there by default when using hiera() is 
because the indirector and the parser functions were not DRY - the parser 
functions used the HieraPuppet class while the indirector duplicated the 
functionality of this class so I refactored that up to be DRY leading to more 
consistency.

@zipkid - would be awesome if you could test again
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Feature #16856: puppet should support data in modules
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16856#change-78660

Author: R.I. Pienaar
Status: Needs More Information
Priority: Normal
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Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 
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Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/1217


At present there is a way to store data in modules using the puppet backend for 
hiera but it is optional and kind of broken.  The site hierarchy impacts how 
the puppet backend behaves which makes it impossible for module authors to 
supply data in their modules they can rely on

I propose a new hiera backend that loads a hierarchy of data from the 'data' 
directory in the module, this module must always be present in a puppet 
install.  This ability is key to the ability to create configurable forge 
modules that do not have hard coded values thanks to the puppet 3 hiera 
integration

reference the users list thread 
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/pvqzeyHkrY4/discussion


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