Title: Automating User Account Management
Problem Statement:
As an IT Administrator, you are responsible for managing user accounts in your organization. You have noticed that the process of creating, updating, and deleting user accounts is repetitive and time-consuming. To improve efficiency, you decide to create a script that automates these common tasks.
Your task is to create a Python script that allows you to manage user accounts in a simple and automated way. The script should be able to perform the following actions:
- Create a new user account with the following details:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Email Address
- Username
- Password
- Update an existing user account with new details.
- Delete a user account.
- List all user accounts.
For the purpose of this exercise, you can store user account data in a Python dictionary, where the keys are the usernames, and the values are another dictionary containing the user's details (first name, last name, email address, and password).
Function Signature:
def manage_user_accounts(
action: str,
username: str = None,
first_name: str = None,
last_name: str = None,
email: str = None,
password: str = None
) -> Union[None, str, Dict[str, Dict[str, str]]]:
Input
action: The action to be performed. It should be one of the following: "create", "update", "delete", or "list".username: The username of the user account (used for actions "update", "delete", and "create").first_name: The first name of the user account (used for actions "create" and "update").last_name: The last name of the user account (used for actions "create" and "update").email: The email address of the user account (used for actions "create" and "update").password: The password of the user account (used for actions "create" and "update").
Output
- For "create", "update", and "delete" actions, return a string message indicating the status of the operation.
- For the "list" action, return a dictionary containing all user accounts.
Examples
accounts = manage_user_accounts("create", username="jsmith", first_name="John", last_name="Smith", email="john.smith@example.com", password="secret")
assert accounts == "User account 'jsmith' created successfully."
accounts = manage_user_accounts("create", username="adoe", first_name="Alice", last_name="Doe", email="alice.doe@example.com", password="mypassword")
assert accounts == "User account 'adoe' created successfully."
accounts = manage_user_accounts("list")
assert accounts == {
"jsmith": {
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Smith",
"email": "john.smith@example.com",
"password": "secret"
},
"adoe": {
"first_name": "Alice",
"last_name": "Doe",
"email": "alice.doe@example.com",
"password": "mypassword"
}
}
accounts = manage_user_accounts("update", username="jsmith", first_name="Johnny", email="johnny.smith@example.com")
assert accounts == "User account 'jsmith' updated successfully."
accounts = manage_user_accounts("list")
assert accounts == {
"jsmith": {
"first_name": "Johnny",
"last_name": "Smith",
"email": "johnny.smith@example.com",
"password": "secret"
},
"adoe": {
"first_name": "Alice",
"last_name": "Doe",
"email": "alice.doe@example.com",
"password": "mypassword"
}
}
accounts = manage_user_accounts("delete", username="adoe")
assert accounts == "User account 'adoe' deleted successfully."
accounts = manage_user_accounts("list")
assert accounts == {
"jsmith": {
"first_name": "Johnny",
"last_name": "Smith",
"email": "johnny.smith@example.com",
"password": "secret"
}
}Notes
- Ensure that you validate the input for each action and handle any errors accordingly.
- Implement the script using functions to separate the different actions and make the code more readable and maintainable