ALX Project for AIrBnb_clone console
This is the first step towards building a full web application: the AirBnB clone.
Each task is linked and will help you to:
- put in place a parent class (BaseModel) to take care of the initialization, serialization and deserialization of your future instances
- create a simple flow of serialization/deserialization
- create all classes used for AirBnB (User, State, City, Place) that inherit from BaseModel
- create the first abstracted storage engine of the project: File storage.
- create all unittests to validate all our classes and storage engine
It's same as the shell but limited to a specific use-case. In our case, we want to be able to manage the objects of our project:
- Create a new object (ex: a new User or a new Place)
- Retrieve an object from a file, a database etc
- Do operations on objects (count, compute stats, etc)
- Update attributes of an object
- Destroy an object
The console works both in interactive mode and non-interactive mode, much like a Unix shell. It prints a prompt (hbnb) and waits for the user for input.
Command | Example |
---|---|
Run the console | ./console.py |
Quit the console | (hbnb) quit |
Display the help for a command | (hbnb) help <command> |
Create an object (prints its id) | (hbnb) create <class> |
Show an object | (hbnb) show <class> <id> or (hbnb) <class>.show(<id>) |
Destroy an object | (hbnb) destroy <class> <id> or (hbnb) <class>.destroy(<id>) |
Show all objects, or all instances of a class | (hbnb) all or (hbnb) all <class> |
Update an attribute of an object | (hbnb) update <class> <id> <attribute name> "<attribute value>" or (hbnb) <class>.update(<id>, <attribute name>, "<attribute value>") |
Execution Your shell should work like this in interactive mode:
$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help
Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF help quit
(hbnb)
(hbnb)
(hbnb) quit
$
But also in non-interactive mode: (like the Shell project(simple shell) in C)
$ echo "help" | ./console.py
(hbnb)
Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF help quit
(hbnb)
$
$ cat test_help
help
$
$ cat test_help | ./console.py
(hbnb)
Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF help quit
(hbnb)
$
All tests should also pass in non-interactive mode:
echo "python3 -m unittest discover tests" | bash
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