data-url modules fail to import

[LorisSigrist]

Environment

Node.js v21.2.0

Reproduction

Self contained snippet:

import jiti from 'jiti'

const moduleAsText = "export default 42"
const dataUrl = "data:text/javascript;base64," + btoa(moduleAsText)

const nativeImport = await import(dataUrl)
console.log(nativeImport.default) // prints 42

const withJiti = jiti(import.meta.filename)(dataUrl)//Throws "MODULE_NOT_FOUND" error
console.log(withJiti.default)

Describe the bug

jiti fails to import modules from data-urls, which is supported by node's native import

Additional context

I tested both base64 encodings and text/javascript encoding, neither worked.
Peering at the source-code there doesn't seem to be any handling for this yet. Would you be interested in supporting this?

We discovered this in opral/monorepo#2133, where a vite-plugin broke because of this.

Logs

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1144
  const err = new Error(message);
              ^

Error: Cannot find module 'data:text/javascript;base64,ZXhwb3J0IGRlZmF1bHQgNDI='
Require stack:
- /Users/***/dev/jiti-debug/index.js
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1144:15)
    at Function.resolve (node:internal/modules/helpers:187:19)
    at _resolve (/Users/***/dev/jiti-debug/node_modules/.pnpm/jiti@1.21.0/node_modules/jiti/dist/jiti.js:1:251148)
    at jiti (/Users/***/dev/jiti-debug/node_modules/.pnpm/jiti@1.21.0/node_modules/jiti/dist/jiti.js:1:253746)
    at file:///Users/***/dev/jiti-debug/index.js:11:13 {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [ '/Users/***/dev/jiti-debug/index.js' ]
}