0x00. AirBnB clone - The console

A command interpreter to manage your AirBnB objects

How to start

This is a command interpreter that will be used to:

• 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

Built-in command list to manager the objects:

• create

Creates a new instance of BaseModel, saves it (to the JSON file) and prints the id

• show

Prints the string representation of an instance based on the class name and id

• destroy

Deletes an instance based on the class name and id (save the change into the JSON file)

• all

Prints all string representation of all instances based or not on the class name

• update

Updates an instance based on the class name and id by adding or updating attribute (save the change into the JSON file. Usage: update <class name> <id> <attribute name> "<attribute value>"

How to use

You can run it from interactive mode ./console.py and non-interactive mode echo "help" | ./console.py

If you want to run unit tests, use this command python3 -m unittest discover tests, can be ran in non interactive mode too

Have fun !

Examples

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

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

(hbnb)
(hbnb)
(hbnb) quit
$

$ 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) 
$