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
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
Clone this repository in your terminal:
$ git clone https://github.com/02KellyV/AirBnB_clone.git
$ cd AirBnB_clone
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)
$
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
The 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