HBNB - The Console
This repository contains the initial stage of a student project to build a clone of the AirBnB website. This stage implements a backend interface, or console, to manage program data. Console commands allow the user to create, update, and destroy objects, as well as manage file storage. Using a system of JSON serialization/deserialization, storage is persistent between sessions.
Repository Contents by Project Task
| Tasks | Files | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0: Authors/README File | AUTHORS | Project authors |
| 1: Pep8 | N/A | All code is pep8 compliant |
| 2: Unit Testing | /tests | All class-defining modules are unittested |
| 3. Make BaseModel | /models/base_model.py | Defines a parent class to be inherited by all model classes |
| 4. Update BaseModel w/ kwargs | /models/base_model.py | Add functionality to recreate an instance of a class from a dictionary representation |
| 5. Create FileStorage class | /models/engine/file_storage.py /models/_ init _.py /models/base_model.py | Defines a class to manage persistent file storage system |
| 6. Console 0.0.1 | console.py | Add basic functionality to console program, allowing it to quit, handle empty lines and ^D |
| 7. Console 0.1 | console.py | Update the console with methods allowing the user to create, destroy, show, and update stored data |
| 8. Create User class | console.py /models/engine/file_storage.py /models/user.py | Dynamically implements a user class |
| 9. More Classes | /models/user.py /models/place.py /models/city.py /models/amenity.py /models/state.py /models/review.py | Dynamically implements more classes |
| 10. Console 1.0 | console.py /models/engine/file_storage.py | Update the console and file storage system to work dynamically with all classes update file storage |
General Use
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First clone this repository.
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Once the repository is cloned locate the "console.py" file and run it as follows:
/AirBnB_clone$ ./console.py
- When this command is run the following prompt should appear:
(hbnb)
- This prompt designates you are in the "HBnB" console. There are a variety of commands available within the console program.
Commands
* create - Creates an instance based on given class
* destroy - Destroys an object based on class and UUID
* show - Shows an object based on class and UUID
* all - Shows all objects the program has access to, or all objects of a given class
* update - Updates existing attributes an object based on class name and UUID
* quit - Exits the program (EOF will as well)
Alternative Syntax
Users are able to issue a number of console command using an alternative syntax:
Usage: <class_name>.<command>([<id>[name_arg value_arg]|[kwargs]])
Advanced syntax is implemented for the following commands:
* all - Shows all objects the program has access to, or all objects of a given class
* count - Return number of object instances by class
* show - Shows an object based on class and UUID
* destroy - Destroys an object based on class and UUID
* update - Updates existing attributes an object based on class name and UUID
Examples
Primary Command Syntax
Example 0: Create an object
Usage: create <class_name>
(hbnb) create BaseModel
(hbnb) create BaseModel
3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8
(hbnb)
Example 1: Show an object
Usage: show <class_name> <_id>
(hbnb) show BaseModel 3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8
[BaseModel] (3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8) {'id': '3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 18, 14, 21, 12, 96959),
'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 18, 14, 21, 12, 96971)}
(hbnb)
Example 2: Destroy an object
Usage: destroy <class_name> <_id>
(hbnb) destroy BaseModel 3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8
(hbnb) show BaseModel 3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8
** no instance found **
(hbnb)
Example 3: Update an object
Usage: update <class_name> <_id>
(hbnb) update BaseModel b405fc64-9724-498f-b405-e4071c3d857f first_name "person"
(hbnb) show BaseModel b405fc64-9724-498f-b405-e4071c3d857f
[BaseModel] (b405fc64-9724-498f-b405-e4071c3d857f) {'id': 'b405fc64-9724-498f-b405-e4071c3d857f', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 18, 14, 33, 45, 729889),
'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 18, 14, 33, 45, 729907), 'first_name': 'person'}
(hbnb)
Alternative Syntax
Example 0: Show all User objects
Usage: <class_name>.all()
(hbnb) User.all()
["[User] (99f45908-1d17-46d1-9dd2-b7571128115b) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 21, 47, 34, 92071), 'id': '99f45908-1d17-46d1-9dd2-b7571128115b', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 21, 47, 34, 92056)}", "[User] (98bea5de-9cb0-4d78-8a9d-c4de03521c30) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 21, 47, 29, 134362), 'id': '98bea5de-9cb0-4d78-8a9d-c4de03521c30', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 21, 47, 29, 134343)}"]
Example 1: Destroy a User
Usage: <class_name>.destroy(<_id>)
(hbnb) User.destroy("99f45908-1d17-46d1-9dd2-b7571128115b")
(hbnb)
(hbnb) User.all()
(hbnb) ["[User] (98bea5de-9cb0-4d78-8a9d-c4de03521c30) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 21, 47, 29, 134362), 'id': '98bea5de-9cb0-4d78-8a9d-c4de03521c30', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 21, 47, 29, 134343)}"]
Example 2: Update User (by attribute)
Usage: <class_name>.update(<_id>, <attribute_name>, <attribute_value>)
(hbnb) User.update("98bea5de-9cb0-4d78-8a9d-c4de03521c30", name "Todd the Toad")
(hbnb)
(hbnb) User.all()
(hbnb) ["[User] (98bea5de-9cb0-4d78-8a9d-c4de03521c30) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 21, 47, 29, 134362), 'id': '98bea5de-9cb0-4d78-8a9d-c4de03521c30', 'name': 'Todd the Toad', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 21, 47, 29, 134343)}"]
Example 3: Update User (by dictionary)
Usage: <class_name>.update(<_id>, )
(hbnb) User.update("98bea5de-9cb0-4d78-8a9d-c4de03521c30", {'name': 'Fred the Frog', 'age': 9})
(hbnb)
(hbnb) User.all()
(hbnb) ["[User] (98bea5de-9cb0-4d78-8a9d-c4de03521c30) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 21, 47, 29, 134362), 'name': 'Fred the Frog', 'age': 9, 'id': '98bea5de-9cb0-4d78-8a9d-c4de03521c30', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 21, 47, 29, 134343)}"]