This project was assigned to us by Holberton School Tulsa. It is a simple command interpreter to manage the objects used in the AirBnB clone project by:
- Allowing for the creation of new objects.
- Allows retrieval of an object from a file, a database, etc.
- Allows operations to be performed on objects
- Allows object attributes to be updated.
- Allows objects to be destroyed.
The project contains:
- A parent class (called
BaseModel) used for initialization, serialization, and deserialization of instances. - Creates a simple flow of serialization/deserialization, as follows: Instance <-> Dictionary <-> JSON string <-> file
- Creation of all subclasses (
User,State,City,Amenity,Place,Review) - Creation of a the first abstracted storage engine of the project: File storage.
- Unittests to validate all classes as well as the storage engine.
The user of the console will be able to utilize it in an interactive or non-interactive mode as desired. Running ./console.py in terminal will open up a prompt that the user can call functions from. For example:
./console.py
(hbtn) help
Documented commands (type help <topic>):
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EOF all create destroy help quit show update
Commands may be executed non-interactively by piping them into the console. For example:
Both
echo "create BaseModel" | ./console.py
and
./console.py
(hbtn) create BaseModel
will create an instance of the BaseModel class and print its id.
The EOF command is used to terminate the console. Alternatively, Ctrl+D may be used.
This project exists because of the following contributors:
Matthew Allen
Aaron Manuel
Logan Mcclain
