Documents for human readable documentation and runtime validation

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions, comprising:
• a repository comprising respective document files separate from and associated with objects, wherein the document files comprise respective validation information associated with the objects, there is a one-to-one relationship between the document files and the objects, and the respective validation information comprises source code for validating the associated objects;
• validation code configured to, during runtime validate at least part of an object of the objects based upon validation information contained within a document file of the document files associated with the object, comprising, in response to identification of an inheritance relationship between the object and another object, access other validation information maintained in an additional document of the documents separate from and associated with the other object.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution, cause a system including a processor to perform operations comprising:

• accessing a repository comprising respective documents separate from and associated with objects, wherein the documents comprise respective validation information associated with the objects, there is a one-to-one relationship between the documents and the objects, and the respective validation information comprises source code for validating the associated objects;
• obtaining validation information maintained in a document of the documents associated with an object of the objects;
• running, during runtime, pre-validation code in the source code using the validation information to determine whether part of the object or data associated with the part of the object passes validation or fails the validation, wherein executing the pre-validation code comprises, in response to identifying an inheritance relationship between the object and another object, accessing, by the system, other validation information maintained in an additional document of the documents separate from and associated with the other object;
• and
• running code of the object in response to a first determination by the pre-validation code that the part of the object or the data associated with the part of the object passes the validation, or outputting, by the system, an error in response to a second determination by the pre-validation code that the part of the object or the data associated with the part of the object fails the validation.