etette/airbnb_clone

AirBnB Clone - The Console

Project is carried out by Emmanuel Effiong and Gbenga Ogunmefun

Project Description

The main objective of this project is to clone the AirBnB website. First part is to create all classes for AirBnB(User, City, Place) that inherits from a BaseModel Create an abstracted storage engine and validate all classes and the storage engine.

Command Intepreter

• Create a new object (e.g: 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

Functionalities of the console

create: Create a new object (User/Place) update: Update attributes of an object show: Prints the string representation of an instance based on the class name and id all: Prints all string representation of all instances. EOF: method to EOF to exit with. (CTRL D) emptyline: an empty line + ENTER shouldn't execute anything. destroy: Deletes an instance based on the class name and id. quit: Quit command to exit the program

How to use

In interactive mode

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF help quit

(hbnb)
(hbnb)
(hbnb) quit
$

In non-interactive mode

$ 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)
$

Directory and File Descriptions

models - Contains all models used in the project models/engine/file_storage.py - Used for serialization and deserialization of python objects to and from a Json file. models/base_model.py - Base class for all models. models/city.py, amenity.py, place.py, review.py, state.py, user.py - Entities that inherit from the Base class. console.py - The command line intepreter. AUTHORS - Contributors on this project.