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+module Puppet::Parser::Functions
+  newfunction(:lookup_hiera_hash, :arity => 2, :type => :rvalue,
+              :doc => "Lookup a key->value from a Hiera hash") do |args|
+    hash_name = args[0]
+    key_name = args[1]
+    unless hash_name.is_a?(String) and key_name.is_a?(String)
+      raise Puppet::ParseError, "The hash name and the key name must be given as strings."
+    end
+    if defined? call_function
+      hash = call_function('hiera', [hash_name])
+    else
+      hash = function_hiera([hash_name])
+    end
+    unless hash.is_a?(Hash)
+      raise Puppet::ParseError, "The value Hiera returned for #{hash_name} is not a Hash."
+    end
+    unless hash.key?(key_name)
+      raise Puppet::ParseError, "The Hiera hash #{hash_name} does not contain key #{key_name}."
+    end
+    return hash[key_name]
+  end
+end