Programming Language independent Model Validation

Question

Let\'s say you use several different programming languages and frameworks in your infrastructure to handle large amounts of traffic etc.

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Answer 1

I would go on a "dictionary" of Regular Expressions. Regular Expressions are supported by all the languages you counted - and - translating their string representation from one language to another can be done by a passing the expressions themselves through regular expressions...

To my observation - it's a lot less work then composing a parse and execute mechanism for each language...

Like advised before - you can save this "dictionary" of Reg-Exps in an agnostic format, such as JSON. This narrows down the duplicated work to -

• one source file of validation expressions that you maintain
• per programming language:
  • converter from the main file to the format of the target language
  • thin mechanism of
    1. reading the JSON,
    2. selecting from it the configured checks
    3. executing them
  • edge cases (if any)

Have fun :)