0x00. AirBnB clone - The console

Table of contents

• Overview
• Console
• Testing
• Usage
• Examples

Overview

This project is a simplified version of the popular accommodation booking platform, AirBnB. It allows users to list their properties for rent and search for available accommodations based on their preferences.

This project is the first step towards building our first full application:the AirBnB clone.

Console

The console (command interpreter) is a python script that provides a command-line interface (CLI) to interact with the AirBnB clone project. In this project the console will perform the following:

• create a new object
• retrive an object from a file
• do operations on objects
• update attributes of an object
• destroy an object

Testing

To run the console.py file

In interactive mode

$ ./console.py

In non-interactive mode

$ echo "help" | ./console.py

$ cat test_help | ./console.py

Usage

• 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
$

Examples

The commands are displayed in the following format Command / usage / example with output

• Create

Creates a new instance of a given class. The class' ID is printed and the instance is saved to the file file.json.

create <class>

(hbnb) create BaseModel
6cfb47c4-a434-4da7-ac03-2122624c3762
(hbnb)

• Show

show <class> <id>

(hbnb) show BaseModel 6cfb47c4-a434-4da7-ac03-2122624c3762
[BaseModel] (a) [BaseModel] (6cfb47c4-a434-4da7-ac03-2122624c3762) {'id': '6cfb47c4-a434-4da7-ac03-2122624c3762', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2021, 11, 14, 3, 28, 45, 571360), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2021, 11, 14, 3, 28, 45, 571389)}
(hbnb)

• Destroy

Deletes an instance of a given class with a given ID. Update the file.json

(hbnb) create User
0c98d2b8-7ffa-42b7-8009-d9d54b69a472
(hbnb) destroy User 0c98d2b8-7ffa-42b7-8009-d9d54b69a472
(hbnb) show User 0c98d2b8-7ffa-42b7-8009-d9d54b69a472
** no instance found **
(hbnb)

• all

Prints all string representation of all instances of a given class. If no class is passed, all classes are printed.

(hbnb) create BaseModel
e45ddda9-eb80-4858-99a9-226d4f08a629
(hbnb) all BaseModel
["[BaseModel] (4c8f7ebc-257f-4ed1-b26b-e7aace459897) [BaseModel] (4c8f7ebc-257f-4ed1-b26b-e7aace459897) {'id': '4c8f7ebc-257f-4ed1-b26b-e7aace459897', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2021, 11, 13, 22, 19, 19, 447155), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2021, 11, 13, 22, 19, 19, 447257), 'name': 'My First Model', 'my_number': 89}"]
["[BaseMode

• count

Prints the number of instances of a given class.

(hbnb) create City
4e01c33e-2564-42c2-b61c-17e512898bad
(hbnb) create City
e952b772-80a5-41e9-b728-6bc4dc5c21b4
(hbnb) count City
2
(hbnb)

• update

Updates an instance based on the class name, id, and kwargs passed. Update the file.json

(hbnb) create User
1afa163d-486e-467a-8d38-3040afeaa1a1
(hbnb) update User 1afa163d-486e-467a-8d38-3040afeaa1a1 email "[email protected]"
(hbnb) show User 1afa163d-486e-467a-8d38-3040afeaa1a1
[User] (s) [User] (1afa163d-486e-467a-8d38-3040afeaa1a1) {'id': '1afa163d-486e-467a-8d38-3040afeaa1a1', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2021, 11, 14, 23, 42, 10, 502157), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2021, 11, 14, 23, 42, 10, 502186), 'email': '[email protected]'}
(hbnb)