AirBnB clone - The console

This is the first step towards building a full web application: Writing a command interpreter to manage the AirBnB objects.

The HBNB console

Manages 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

Commands and how to use it

The command interpreter allows us to handle our data requirements with the following commands:

Command	Function
create	create a new instance of a class
show	show the info of an instance of a class
destroy	destroy an instance of a class
update	update the info of the objects in an instance
all	prints all string representation of all instances
quit	exit the console
help	show help of the commands

Objects

The objects that can be passed to the HBNB console:

Object	Function
city	city of the reservation
state	country state of the reservation
place	name of the place of reservation
user	name of the user who reserves
amenity	benefits of the place
review	review of the room and guest

Using the console

To start the console in interactive mode run:

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

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

(hbnb)
(hbnb)
(hbnb) quit
$

You can also do it 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:

Standard commands:

(hbnb)create User
993e570d-9b4e-449c-84b3-085ab454d3ce
(hbnb)

Will create a new User

(hbnb)create BaseModel
d711be23-73d9-4fbd-92f5-fe9ec7044d6d
(hbnb)show BaseModel d711be23-73d9-4fbd-92f5-fe9ec7044d6d
[BaseModel] (d711be23-73d9-4fbd-92f5-fe9ec7044d6d) {'id': 'd711be23-73d9-4fbd-92f5-fe9ec7044d6d', 'created_at': '2019-07-04T02:20:53.149558', 'updated_at': '2019-07-04T02:20:53.149791'}
(hbnb)

Will create a new BaseModel and show the objects of the instance

(hbnb)destroy BaseModel d711be23-73d9-4fbd-92f5-fe9ec7044d6d
['BaseModel', 'd711be23-73d9-4fbd-92f5-fe9ec7044d6d']
(hbnb)

Will destroy the BaseModel instance

Authors

• Karanja J. Njuguna
• Faith Mwangi