• Project Description
• Description of the command interpreter
• How to start it, How to use it
• Contributors
• Usage

This is the first step towards building a full web application: the AirBnB clone. This first step is very important because you will use what you build during this project with all other following projects: HTML/CSS templating, database storage, API, front-end integration

Each task is linked and will help you to:

• 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

• Its exactly the same as the 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

• Execution
  • Your shell should work like this in interactive mode:

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
Amenity    City  Place   State  all    create   help  show
BaseModel  EOF   Review  User   count  destroy  quit  update

(hbnb)
(hbnb)
(hbnb) quit
$

But also in non-interactive mode: (like the Shell project(simple shell) in C)

$ echo "help" | ./console.py
(hbnb)

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
Amenity    City  Place   State  all    create   help  show
BaseModel  EOF   Review  User   count  destroy  quit  update
(hbnb)
$
$ cat test_help
help
$
$ cat test_help | ./console.py
(hbnb)

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

All tests should also pass in non-interactive mode:

$ echo "python3 -m unittest discover tests" | bash

• Start the console in interactive mode:

$ ./console.py
(hbnb)

• Use help to see the available commands:

(hbnb) help

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

(hbnb)

• Quit the console:

(hbnb) quit
$

*- Damaris Muange [email protected]