AirBnB Clone

0x00. AirBnB clone - The console

This project aims to create a clone of the AirBnB website

First Step:

Objects (classes), serialization and deserialization, file storage, and unittests:

• 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

Command Intepreter:

• 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

Usage

starting the command intepreter

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF  all  create  destroy  help  quit  show  update

(hbnb)
$

create

(hbnb) create BaseModel
6f4de530-9179-470b-8ea8-fa2e121800d5
(hbnb) create User
20061fa2-e05b-449d-9b3a-0929dce66afc
(hbnb)

show

(hbnb) show User 20061fa2-e05b-449d-9b3a-0929dce66afc
[User] (20061fa2-e05b-449d-9b3a-0929dce66afc) {'id': '20061fa2-e05b-449d-9b3a-0929dce66afc', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 12, 59, 639440), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 12, 59, 643343)}
(hbnb)

destroy

(hbnb) destroy User 20061fa2-e05b-449d-9b3a-0929dce66afc
(hbnb) show User 20061fa2-e05b-449d-9b3a-0929dce66afc
** no instance found **
(hbnb)

all

(hbnb) create BaseModel
56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e
(hbnb) all
["[BaseModel] (56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e) {'id': '56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 18, 26, 124398), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 18, 26, 126686)}"]
(hbnb) create User
949e96ae-d3e9-4716-aba5-49094f8b6377
(hbnb) all
["[BaseModel] (56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e) {'id': '56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 18, 26, 124398), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 18, 26, 126686)}", "[User] (949e96ae-d3e9-4716-aba5-49094f8b6377) {'id': '949e96ae-d3e9-4716-aba5-49094f8b6377', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 18, 34, 946231), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 18, 34, 948960)}"]
(hbnb)

update

(hbnb) show BaseModel 56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e
[BaseModel] (56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e) {'id': '56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 18, 26, 124398), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 18, 26, 126686)}
(hbnb) update BaseModel 56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e first_name "My name"
(hbnb) show BaseModel 56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e
[BaseModel] (56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e) {'id': '56792a12-6173-4b4f-b178-f52b9a9e413e', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 18, 26, 124398), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 17, 7, 18, 26, 126686), 'first_name': 'My name'}
(hbnb)

quit

(hbnb)
(hbnb) quit
$

Other variants of the commands above are:

• <class name>.all() - to retrieve all instances of a class
• <class name>.count() - to retrieve the number of instances of a class
• <class name>.show(<id>) - to retrieve an instance based on its ID
• <class name>.destroy(<id>) - to destroy an instance based on his ID
• <class name>.update(<id>, <attribute name>, <attribute value>) - to update an instance based on his ID

AUTHORS

• Samir Idris
• Kingsley Isidore