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doc: describe "CEE cookie" required by mmjsonparse

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... as well as other format requirements.
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@ -15,6 +15,16 @@ that follow the CEE/lumberjack spec. The so-called "CEE cookie" is checked
and, if present, the JSON-encoded structured message content is parsed.
The properties are than available as original message properties.
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<p>The "CEE cookie" is the character squence "@cee:" which must prepend the
actual JSON. Note that the JSON must be valid and MUST NOT be followed by
any non-JSON message. If either of these conditions is not true, mmjsonparse
will <b>not</b> parse the associated JSON. This is based on the cookie
definition used in CEE/project lumberjack and is meant to aid against
an errornous detection of a message as being CEE where it is not.
<p>This also means that mmjsonparse currently is NOT a generic JSON
parser that picks up JSON from whereever it may occur in the message. This
is intentional, but future versions may support config parameters to
relax the format requirements.
<p><b>Action specific Configuration Directives</b>:</p>
<p>currently none
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