overview glossary

Glossary

These terms appear across the UI, Rust core, Tauri commands, tests, and release docs. Most of the typed vocabulary is declared in crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/types.rs and mirrored in frontend/src/types.ts.

Term	Meaning	Source
AnonymizerService	The Rust service facade for CSV analysis, preview, preflight checks, anonymization, and report construction.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/service.rs
Column metadata	Per-column facts such as name, detected type, confidence, privacy evidence, sample values, selection state, and strategy.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/types.rs
Data type	The detector's classification for a column or value, such as Email, Phone, FullName, TaxId, Uuid, or Timestamp.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/types.rs
PII risk	A high, medium, or low risk label derived from the detected data type.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/detection.rs
Detection trace	Explainability data showing which detector evidence contributed to a column classification.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/types.rs, crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/detection/scoring.rs
Header taxonomy	The maintained multilingual header term data used by deterministic header detection.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/detection/header_taxonomy.json
Privacy span	A detected sensitive span inside free text, XML, JSON, YAML, or logs.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/detection/spans.rs
Strategy	The selected transformation method: redaction, masking, pseudonymization, tokenization, pass-through, or Local AI.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/types.rs, crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/strategies/mod.rs
Transform state	In-run replacement memory that keeps repeated source values consistent and records counts for reports.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/strategies/state.rs
Preflight	Backend validation before preview or final anonymization, including selected columns, output path readiness, and Local AI readiness.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/service.rs, frontend/src/tauri.ts
Privacy report	A report describing transformed columns, redactions, token counts, reuse, Local AI fallback counts, readiness, evidence, and utility metrics.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/release_report.rs, frontend/src/components/privacy-report
Paste sample	The direct-input workflow for small pasted CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, plain text, and log content.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/direct_input/mod.rs, frontend/src/components/PasteDataWorkflowView.tsx
Quick by data type	A workflow that generates protected sample values from a selected data type and strategy.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/direct_input/quick.rs, frontend/src/components/QuickDataTypeWorkflowView.tsx
Smart replacement	Optional Local AI replacement for selected values through a local Ollama model, with validation and rule-based fallback.	crates/csv-anonymizer-core/src/smart.rs, src-tauri/src/local_ai/provider.rs
Ollama	The local runtime used by Smart replacement. The default endpoint and model live in src-tauri/src/local_ai/mod.rs.	src-tauri/src/local_ai/mod.rs
Path access	The Tauri-side grant model that allows only selected input and output files.	src-tauri/src/path_access.rs
Background job	A retained, cancellable Tauri job used for long-running CSV anonymization and Local AI model downloads.	src-tauri/src/jobs.rs, src-tauri/src/job_registry.rs, src-tauri/src/local_ai/download.rs
Contract check	The Node script that checks Rust DTO names and fields against TypeScript DTOs.	scripts/check-contracts.mjs

For a layer-by-layer walkthrough, see Architecture. For typed domain objects, see Data models.