preciousvictory/airbnb_clone

The AirBnB Clone Project

The goal of the project is to deploy on my server a simple copy of the AirBnB website. The project will be a complete web application composed by:

• A command interpreter to manipulate data without a visual interface, like in a Shell (perfect for development and debugging)
• A website (the front-end) that shows the final product to everybody: static and dynamic
• A database or files that store data (data = objects)
• An API that provides a communication interface between the front-end and your data (retrieve, create, delete, update them)

The Command Interpreter

It’s exactly the same as 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

The console.py that contains the entry point of the command interpreter

• use the module cmd
• The class definition is: class HBNBCommand(cmd.Cmd):

The command interpreter implements:

• quit and EOF to exit the program
• help
• a custom prompt: (hbnb)
• an empty line + ENTER shouldn’t execute anything