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Character encoding

Character Encoding is the means of encoding character data (i.e. text) into binary form. Therefore to decode character data from a stream of bytes, the character encoding must be known (or guessed).

Condition

A Condition in an query expression term, e.g. =, >, in, etc.

Content

Content in Stroom typically means the user created documents/entities created in Stroom and as seen in the explorer tree. Content can be created/modified by Stroom users and imported/exported for sharing between different Stroom instances.

Context data

This is an additional stream of contextual data that is sent along side the main event stream. It provides a means for the sending system to send additional data that relates only to the event stream it is sent alongside.

Cron

Cron is a command line utility found on most linux/unix systems that is used for scheduling background tasks. Cron expressions (or variants of them) are widely used in other schedulers.

CSV

Comma Separated Values is a file format with typically one record per line and fields delimited by a ,. Fields may be optionally enclosed with double quotes, though there is no fixed standard for CSV data, particularly when it comes to escaping of double quotes and/or commas.