Part-1b.-Testing-my-first-service.md

+# Using curl to test your first FastAPI service on IBM i.
+
+Now that we've coded a service, we want to start it and test it
+
+## Starting a FastAPI service, and making it a background task
+
+In the shell, type `python -m hypercorn main:app --bind ":${HTTP_PORT:-9000}"`
+
+_The environment variable_ `HTTP_PORT` _is defined pr. user on our test server, ensuring we don't collide with each other.\
+The_ `:-9000` _is a fallback, in case that variable isn't set in your environment._
+
+Now that the service is running, we want to test it.
+
+First send it to the background by pressing `Ctrl+z`, this "pauses" the service,
+
+Now type `bg` the service will be resumed, but is now running in the background.
+
+Following the last few pages, you should be looking at this...
+
+![image](uploads/7f7b8371186313f9e6e54246834c2ba0/image.png)
+
+## Actually testing the thing
+
+Now to test the service, we'll use the `curl` command, in combination with the `jq` command , type:
+
+`curl -sS localhost:${HTTP_PORT:-9000} | jq .`
+
+If everything has gone right, we''ll get a response from the service in JSON format, which `jq` will pretty print.
+
+```plaintext
+{
+    "Hello": "World"
+}
+```
+
+Now we're cooking, time to actually build something!
+
+
+[Graduate to part 2...](Part-2a.-Extending-my-first-service)
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