AirBnB clone - The console

Background Context

The console is the first segment of the AirBnB project at Holberton School that will collectively cover fundamental concepts of higher level programming. The goal of AirBnB project is to eventually deploy our server a simple copy of the AirBnB Website(HBnB). A command interpreter is created in this segment to manage objects for the AirBnB(HBnB) website.

Welcome to the AirBnB clone project! (The Holberton B&B)

First step: Write a command interpreter to manage your AirBnB objects. This is the first step towards building your first 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

Whats a command interpreter?

Do you remember the Shell? Its exactly the same 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

Installation

Clone this repository in your terminal:

$ git clone https://github.com/hamidbeyli005/holbertonschool-AirBnB_clone
$ cd holbertonschool-AirBnB_clone

Execution

This code should work like this in interactive mode:

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

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

(hbnb) 
(hbnb) 
(hbnb) quit
$

But also 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) 
$

Examples

In the AirBnB_clone directory create the file named "test_base_model.py" with the following code:

#!/usr/bin/python3
from models.base_model import BaseModel

my_model = BaseModel()
my_model.name = "Holberton"
my_model.my_number = 89
print(my_model)
my_model.save()
print(my_model)
my_model_json = my_model.to_dict()
print(my_model_json)
print("JSON of my_model:")
for key in my_model_json.keys():
    print("\t{}: ({}) - {}".format(key, type(my_model_json[key]), my_model_json[key]))

Grant execution permissions to the file as follows:

$ chmod u+x test_base_model.py

Then execute the file as follows:

$ ./test_base_model.py

Then output should be as follows:

[BaseModel] (b6a6e15c-c67d-4312-9a75-9d084935e579) {'my_number': 89, 'name': 'Holberton', 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 28, 21, 5, 54, 119434), 'id': 'b6a6e15c-c67d-4312-9a75-9d084935e579', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 28, 21, 5, 54, 119427)}
[BaseModel] (b6a6e15c-c67d-4312-9a75-9d084935e579) {'my_number': 89, 'name': 'Holberton', 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 28, 21, 5, 54, 119572), 'id': 'b6a6e15c-c67d-4312-9a75-9d084935e579', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 28, 21, 5, 54, 119427)}
{'my_number': 89, 'name': 'Holberton', '__class__': 'BaseModel', 'updated_at': '2017-09-28T21:05:54.119572', 'id': 'b6a6e15c-c67d-4312-9a75-9d084935e579', 'created_at': '2017-09-28T21:05:54.119427'}
JSON of my_model:
    my_number: (<class 'int'>) - 89
    name: (<class 'str'>) - Holberton
    __class__: (<class 'str'>) - BaseModel
    updated_at: (<class 'str'>) - 2017-09-28T21:05:54.119572
    id: (<class 'str'>) - b6a6e15c-c67d-4312-9a75-9d084935e579
    created_at: (<class 'str'>) - 2017-09-28T21:05:54.119427