A system according one exemplary embodiment may receive instructions regarding a callee function that include a description of properties associated with arguments for the callee function, create a persistent representation of the callee function based on the received description of the callee function, receive instructions from a source describing a set of properties for a data collection, create a persistent representation of the data collection based on the set of properties for the data collection, receive an updated property for the data collection, and in response to receiving the updated property for the data collection: update the persistent representation of the callee function by associating the persistent representation of the callee function with the updated property of the data collection and update the persistent representation of the data collection by associating the persistent representation the data collection with the updated property of the data collection.