tim 8e91e14e86 Add /blocks/{block_id} safety querystring
It didn't feel good letting users retrieve also invalid or undecided
blocks in the /blocks/{block_id} endpoint.

Hence, now a block can be evaluated by it's status.
If block_id and status do not match, a 404 Not Found HTTP status code is
returned.
Per default, status is set to valid only.
2017-01-25 10:36:20 +01:00
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2016-10-27 14:09:55 +02:00

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The BigchainDB Documentation Strategy

  • Include explanatory comments and docstrings in your code. Write Google style docstrings with a maximum line width of 119 characters.
  • For quick overview and help documents, feel free to create README.md or other X.md files, written using GitHub-flavored Markdown. Markdown files render nicely on GitHub. We might auto-convert some .md files into a format that can be included in the long-form documentation.
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  • We also use Sphinx to document all REST APIs, with the help of the httpdomain extension.

How to Generate the HTML Version of the Long-Form Documentation

If you want to generate the HTML version of the long-form documentation on your local machine, you need to have Sphinx and some Sphinx-contrib packages installed. To do that, go to a subdirectory of docs (e.g. docs/server) and do:

pip install -r requirements.txt

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make html

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