AirBnB_clone

ALX Project for AIrBnb_clone console

Project Description

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

Description of the command interpreter

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

Usage 📜

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>")

How to start it, How to use it

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

Done by:

• @dave927
• @amanabay