Fix some lies, and other clarifications, in docstrings

The documentation on get_json has been wrong ever since the very first commit
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/cmdclient/http.py b/contrib/cmdclient/http.py

index 4186897316..c833f3f318 100644
--- a/contrib/cmdclient/http.py
+++ b/contrib/cmdclient/http.py
@@ -36,15 +36,13 @@ class HttpClient(object):
                 the request body. This will be encoded as JSON.
 
         Returns:
-            Deferred: Succeeds when we get *any* HTTP response.
-
-            The result of the deferred is a tuple of `(code, response)`,
-            where `response` is a dict representing the decoded JSON body.
+            Deferred: Succeeds when we get a 2xx HTTP response. The result
+            will be the decoded JSON body.
         """
         pass
 
     def get_json(self, url, args=None):
-        """ Get's some json from the given host homeserver and path
+        """ Gets some json from the given host homeserver and path
 
         Args:
             url (str): The URL to GET data from.
@@ -54,10 +52,8 @@ class HttpClient(object):
                 and *not* a string.
 
         Returns:
-            Deferred: Succeeds when we get *any* HTTP response.
-
-            The result of the deferred is a tuple of `(code, response)`,
-            where `response` is a dict representing the decoded JSON body.
+            Deferred: Succeeds when we get a 2xx HTTP response. The result
+            will be the decoded JSON body.
         """
         pass
 
@@ -214,4 +210,4 @@ class _JsonProducer(object):
         pass
 
     def stopProducing(self):
-        pass
\ No newline at end of file
+        pass