Adjust the example Etherpad API delete command

Because our docker images include few CLI utilities, make the
example so that we rely on outside utilities on the host system for
making http connections to the API socket for simplicity.

Change-Id: I6a8abdbb55120db7d0f0b97255824f5a8fac76cb
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Jeremy Stanley 2021-01-13 17:05:00 +00:00
parent 44a076998b
commit 501de530d1

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@ -49,12 +49,14 @@ browser). This is fairly easily accomplished via the `HTTP API`_, but
you need the key which is saved in a file on the server so it's easiest
if done when SSH'd into it locally::
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose -f /etc/etherpad-docker/docker-compose.yaml exec -T etherpad \
bash -c "wget -qO- 'http://localhost:9001/api/1/deletePad?apikey='$(cat \
/opt/etherpad-lite/APIKEY.txt)'&padID=XXXXXXXXXX'"
wget -qO- "http://localhost:9001/api/1/deletePad?apikey=$(sudo \
docker-compose -f /etc/etherpad-docker/docker-compose.yaml exec etherpad \
cat /opt/etherpad-lite/APIKEY.txt)&padID=XXXXXXXXXX" ; echo
...where XXXXXXXXXX is the pad's name as it appears at the end of its
URL. If all goes well, you should receive a response like::
URL (the trailing echo is just because the API response doesn't end with
a newline and so your next appended shell prompt makes it harder to
read). If all goes well, you should receive a response like::
{"code":0,"message":"ok","data":null}