{
  // create a Hades object and get the
  // pointers to the runtime database and
  // the spectrometer
  Hades* myHades = new Hades;
  HSpectrometer* spec = gHades->getSetup();
  HRuntimeDb* rtdb = gHades->getRuntimeDb(); 
 
  // create the detector and its setup
  // and add it in the spectrometer
  HRichDetector* rich = new HRichDetector;
  Int_t mods[] = {1};
  rich->setModules(-1,mods);
  spec->addDetector(rich);
 
  // define the input
  HParOra2Io* ora = new HParOra2Io;
  //ora->open();
  ora->open("db-hades-test","rich_ana2");
  ora->setHistoryDate("now");
  rtdb->setFirstInput(ora);

  // define the output
//   HParRootFileIo* output = new HParRootFileIo;
//   output->open("Rich700Params.root","RECREATE");
//   rtdb->setOutput(output);
  
   HParAsciiFileIo* output = new HParAsciiFileIo;
  output->open("Rich700ParamsNov2017_b.txt","out");
  rtdb->setOutput(output);

  // create the parameter containers
  HParSet* mypar=rtdb->getContainer("Rich700Trb3Lookup");
  HParSet* mypar2=rtdb->getContainer("Rich700ThresholdPar");
  // initialize the parameter containers
  //rtdb->initContainers(135009684);   //be1211214012401.hld

  //rtdb->initContainers(82841411); // listed in test db (sep10test)
  rtdb->initContainers(1); // the latest default?
  // save the output
  // (writes the data to the file)
  rtdb->saveOutput();

  // print content of the runtime
  // database on the screen
  rtdb->print();

  if(mypar)
  {
    std::cout <<"found trb3lookup parameter:" << std::endl;
    mypar->Print();
  }
  if(mypar2)
  {
    std::cout <<"found rich700 threshold parameter:" << std::endl;
    mypar2->Print();
  }
  
  // delete the Hades object
  delete myHades;
}