0x00. AirBnB clone - The console

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Background Context

Welcome to the AirBnB clone project!

Before starting, please read the AirBnB concept page.

First step: Write a command interpreter to manage your AirBnB objects.

This is the first step towards building your first full web application: the AirBnB clone. This first step is very important because you will use what you build during this project with all other following projects: HTML/CSS templating, database storage, API, front-end integration…

Each task is linked and will help you to:

put in place a parent class (called BaseModel) to take care of the initialization, serialization and deserialization of your future instances
create a simple flow of serialization/deserialization: Instance <-> Dictionary <-> JSON string <-> file
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

What’s a command interpreter?

Do you remember the Shell? It’s exactly the same 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

Resources

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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 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

Examples

Launching the console

$ ./console.py
(hbnb)

Creating a new object

(hbnb) create
** class name missing **
(hbnb) create User
670265eb-5982-489e-8b92-2dff054f0776

Show an object

(hbnb) show User
** instance id missing **
(hbnb) show User 670265eb-5982-489e-8b92-2dff054f0776
[User] (670265eb-5982-489e-8b92-2dff054f0776) {'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 18, 8, 58, 458246), 'id': '670265eb-5982-489e-8b92-2dff054f0776', 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 18, 8, 58, 458261)}

Update an object

(hbnb) all
["[User] (70f71c16-962b-48ad-9df8-9203fe23d612) {'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 18, 11, 32, 341144), 'id': '70f71c16-962b-48ad-9df8-9203fe23d612', 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 18, 11, 32, 341161)}"]
(hbnb) update
** class name missing **
(hbnb) update User
** instance id missing **
(hbnb) update User 70f71c16-962b-48ad-9df8-9203fe23d612
** attribute name missing **
(hbnb) update User 70f71c16-962b-48ad-9df8-9203fe23d612  Age "20"
(hbnb) all
["[User] (70f71c16-962b-48ad-9df8-9203fe23d612) {'Age': 20, 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 18, 11, 32, 341144), 'id': '70f71c16-962b-48ad-9df8-9203fe23d612', 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 18, 13, 9, 937933)}"]
(hbnb)

Destroy an object

(hbnb) destroy
** class name missing **
(hbnb) destroy User
** instance id missing **
(hbnb) destroy User 670265eb-5982-489e-8b92-2dff054f0776
(hbnb)

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