From 5125997b2b03b34be8bd22ca00c36aaa4d699acd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Troy McConaghy <troy@bigchaindb.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:34:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Replaced old response to Root URL with a description of what
to expect
---
docs/server/source/dev-and-test/setup-run-node.md | 14 ++++----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/server/source/dev-and-test/setup-run-node.md b/docs/server/source/dev-and-test/setup-run-node.md
index 1b60e3c3..dd1fc9d5 100644
--- a/docs/server/source/dev-and-test/setup-run-node.md
+++ b/docs/server/source/dev-and-test/setup-run-node.md
@@ -147,22 +147,16 @@ docker-compose run --rm bdb py.test -v --database-backend=mongodb
### Accessing the HTTP API
-A quick check to make sure that the BigchainDB server API is operational:
+You can do quick check to make sure that the BigchainDB server API is operational:
```bash
curl $(docker-compose port bdb 9984)
```
-should give you something like:
+The result should be a JSON object (inside braces like { })
+containing the name of the software ("BigchainDB"),
+the version of BigchainDB, the node's public key, and other information.
-```bash
-{
- "keyring": [],
- "public_key": "Brx8g4DdtEhccsENzNNV6yvQHR8s9ebhKyXPFkWUXh5e",
- "software": "BigchainDB",
- "version": "0.6.0"
-}
-```
How does the above curl command work? Inside the Docker container, BigchainDB
exposes the HTTP API on port `9984`. First we get the public port where that
port is bound: