Puppet users - Jul 2014 - Hiera not expanding $operatingsystem variable

Hi All,

I am sure this is going to be something completely stupid, but I just can't
find the issue :)

I have a very simple module that that needs a different filepath depending
on the operating system, so I'm trying to call:

$global_bashrc_file = hiera("global_bashrc_file")

from my module.

The hierarchy at the moment is very simple:

:hierarchy:
  - %{operatingsystem}
  - default

Calling notify from the module works just fine and brings back CentOS as my
operating system. CentOS.yaml does exist in the  datadir and does contain
the variable. Running hiera in through the shell does indeed show it
working and returns the correct variable:

# hiera global_bashrc_file operatingsystem=CentOS
/etc/bashrc

But when trying to get this value via puppet, I just get an error:
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
Could not find data item global_bashrc_file in any Hiera data file and no
default supplied at blah

It does work perfectly fine if I place the variable in default.yaml, but if
I move it to the os-specific yaml it just shouts at me that I have not
declared it... Just seems like $operatingsystem does not get passed on from
puppet, even though:
# facter operatingsystem
CentOS

and notify '{ "${operatingsystem": }' in puppet works.

As mentioned, I am sure I am missing something very trivial, but maybe one
of you enlightened ones can point me in the right direction!

puppet version is 3.6.2
hiera version i 1.3.4

Thanks in advance!

Karolis

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