AirBnB Console Project

This is the start of all the AirBnb clone work. Where we make a console to interact with the system,

##Project's Concepts +Unittest - and please work all together on tests cases -Python packages concept page -Serialization/Deserialization -*args, **kwargs +datetime -More coming soon!

Base Class Containing all the attributes and methods to be inherited from

Contains a base class that forms the basis for all models, attributes and methods to be added in the project.

Files and Directories

Models

This directory will contain all classes used for the entire project. A class, called “model” in a OOP project is the representation of an object/instance.

Tests

This directory will contain all unit tests.

Console.py

This file is the entry point of our command interpreter.

How the Console works

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

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

(hbnb) 
(hbnb) 
(hbnb) quit
$
$ 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) 
$

models/base_model.py

This file is the base class of all our models. It contains common elements: -attributes: id, created_at and updated_at +methods: save() and to_json()

models/engine

This directory will contain all storage classes (using the same prototype). For the moment you will have only one: file_storage.py

Description of the command interpreter

Command	Description
quit	Quits the console
Ctrl+D	Quits the console
help or help	Displays all commands or Displays instructions for a specific command
create	Creates an object of type , saves it to a JSON file, and prints the objects ID
show	Shows string representation of an object
destroy	Deletes an objects
all or all	Prints all string representations of all objects or Prints all string representations of all objects of a specific class
update ""	Updates an object with a certain attribute (new or existing)
.all()	Same as all
.count()	Retrieves the number of objects of a certain class
.show()	Same as show
.destroy()	Same as destroy
.update(, ,	Same as update
.update(, )	Update objects based on a dictionary representation of attribute names and values