mdawoud27 / airbnb_clone

AirBnB clone Project

Welcome to the AirBnB clone project!

First step: a command interpreter to manage our AirBnB objects.

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

• First we created a BaseModel class that defines all common attributes/methods for other classes, and takes care of the initialization, serialization and deserialization of your future instances.

• We created a simple flow of serialization/deserialization: Instance <-> Dictionary <-> JSON string <-> file.

• Then we created all classes used for AirBnB (User, State, City, Place, …) that inherit from BaseModel.

• We used json files as our storage engine because until now we don't have a GUI, we used the console / command interpreter (cmd module) to manipulate our storage engine.

How to start it

• First clone the repository to your local machine.

  git clone https://github.com/mahmoudsalah296/AirBnB_clone.git

• Run the console.py file (note: you have to be in the same directory as the console.py file and have python3 installed)

  python3 console.py

• Now you can use the console to create, update, destroy, show, and all other CRUD operations on our objects.

• Every time you create an object, it will be saved in a json file in the models directory called file.json

• Available commands:

  • create: creates an object of the class name.

    $ create <class name>

  • show: shows the object of the class name with the id.

    # There are 2 ways to do that
    
    $ show <class name> <class id>
    $ <class name>.show(<class id>)

  • destroy: destroys the object of the class name with the id.

    # There are 2 ways to do that
    
    $ destroy <class name> <clas id>
    $ <class name>.destroy(<class id>)

  • all - shows all objects of the class name.

    # There are many ways to do that
    
    $ all  # If you want show all instances.
    $ all <class name>
    $ <class name>.all()

  • update: Updates an instance based on the class name and id by adding or updating attribute.

    # There are many ways to do that
    
    $ update <class name> <class id> <attribute name> "<attribute value>"
    $ <class name>.update(<id>, <attribute name>, <attribute value>)
    $ <class name>.update(<id>, <dictionary representation>)

  • count - retrieve the number of instances of a class.

     <class name>.count()

  • quit or EOF - exits the console

  • ls - lists all classes names

  • help or ? - shows the help message