installing tomcat7 using puppet on CentOs - solr

Question

so my idea was to install tomcat7 using puppet, and then deploy the war file of Solr as a web app. Here is what i found.
There are many tomcat7 modules on puppet forge but none of them work out of box, and i am not sure if any of them actually work and a lot of them pertains to have code as documentation.
Take puppet module install fhuertas-tomcat7 as first example:
installs fhuertas-tomcat7 (v0.0.1)
i get an error, when i run:
sudo puppet apply --modulepath=/home/qa/puppet_qa/modules/ -e "include tomcat7" --debug
Error: Could not find data item service_path in any Hiera data file and no default supplied
and similar scenario follows for :
puppet module install llehmijo-tomcat7_rhel ( no longer maintained )
https://github.com/Spredzy/puppet-tomcat7 ( claims to be for CentOs ) but has an Apt (apt for centos ??) pre-requisite, plus it did not install either.
All i want to do is to install tomcat7 via puppet, and then install Solr. seems to be a simple request. Meanwhile i am working on my own to resolve the exact issue, and was able to install and run tomcat7, but not sure how i can install tomcat-users.xml
here is a portion of my init.pp
exec {'start service':
command => 'sh "startup.sh"',
cwd => "/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin",
path => '/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin',
#require => File['/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/conf/tomcat-users.xml']
}
so if i un-comment the require => File[]
Error: Could not find dependency File[/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/conf/tomcat-users.xml] for Exec[start service]

Answer 1

file { "/etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml":
owner => 'root',
require => Package['tomcat'],
notify => Service['tomcat'],
content => template('tomcat/tomcat-users.xml.erb')
}
This works, as for the modules not working on puppet forge , and github, i think there is no resolution as if not working then these modules can be taken as guidelines, or hints.

Answer 2

I used the supported one https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/tomcat and following the examples everything was properly installed using packages (at least on Ubuntu). It is also possible to install it from source.
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-tomcat/tree/master/examples. See the example below:
class { 'java': }
class { 'tomcat':
install_from_source => false,
user => 'tomcat7',
require => Class['java']
}
tomcat::instance { 'tomcat7':
package_name => 'tomcat7',
require => Class['tomcat']
}->
tomcat::instance { 'tomcat7-admin':
package_name => 'tomcat7-admin',
}->
tomcat::config::server::tomcat_users {
'tomcat-admin':
catalina_base => '/var/lib/tomcat7',
element => 'user',
password => 'test',
roles => ['manager-gui','admin'];
'deployer':
catalina_base => '/var/lib/tomcat7',
element => 'user',
password => 'deployer',
roles => ['manager-script'];
}->
tomcat::service { 'tomcat7':
service_ensure => running,
catalina_base => '/var/lib/tomcat7',
require => Tomcat::Instance['tomcat7']
}