Puppet users - Apr 2014 - Best practice for creating resources out of Hiera?

I made a module called resource_factory:

https://forge.puppetlabs.com/jaydub/resource_factory

It has two parts. One is the resource_factory class, the other is the 
defined_resource_factory resource type. They both do the same kind of thing 
— wrap around create_resources with a hiera look up on some key. The 
difference is that the class creates defined_resource_factory instances by 
default, and those instances are where you put the resource types and hiera 
keys for the stuff you really want to create. Everything's configured in 
hiera without a lot of site specific classes.

Question is: have I just reinvented the wheel on some existing best 
practice, and if so, how are the grown ups creating resources out of Hiera?

John

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