Holberton BnB (AirBnB clone) - The console

Introduction 🏠

This is part one of the AirBnB clone project which consists in creating a webpage (front-end and back-end) similar to the AirBnB one. On this case, we're focusing on making the console used to Create, Read, Update and Delete objects that will go on our webpage.

Classes 📚

The console use the follow UML class diagram:

Persistence 💾

In order to keep the created data of the above classes, provides an serialization engine.

When the console is executed the models module instance storage of FileStorage. storage is loaded/re-loaded with the data in file.json JSON file. Once loaded, storage works as directory with the register of all instances, it allows to consult, add, and save the instaces.

Console 👾

The console is an command interpreter that allows do operations on the FileStorage engine. Escentially, it provides CRUD's (create, read, update, delete) commands.

Usage:

The Console works in interactives sesson but also non-interactive mode. To run it in Non-interactive mode, pipe any command(s) into an execution of the file console.py at the command line

$ echo "help" | ./console.py
(hbnb) 
Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF  all  count  create  destroy  help  quit  show  update

(hbnb) 

Also, it is possible to create a text file with test cases and pipe the content.

$ cat test
create BaseModel
all BaseModel
$ cat test | ./console.py
(hbnb) c42d2679-f175-4507-9862-40ca0068dbc2
(hbnb) ["[BaseModel] (c42d2679-f175-4507-9862-40ca0068dbc2) {'id': 'c42d2679-f175-4507-9862-40ca0068dbc2', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 18, 1, 23, 987062), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 19, 18, 1, 23, 987067)}"]
(hbnb) 

Finally, to start an interactive session just need to execute ./console.py. it will print a prompt and after that you can use the commands.

$ ./console.py
(hbnb)

Use the quit command or EOF to end the session:

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) quit
$ 

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) EOF
$ 

Commands:

The console supports the follow commands:

• create
  • Usage: create <class>

Creates a new instance of a given class. The class' ID is printed and the instance is saved to the file file.json.

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) create BaseModel
119be863-6fe5-437e-a180-b9892e8746b8
(hbnb) quit
$ cat file.json ; echo ""
{"BaseModel.119be863-6fe5-437e-a180-b9892e8746b8": {"updated_at": "2019-02-17T2
1:30:42.215277", "created_at": "2019-02-17T21:30:42.215277", "__class__": "Base
Model", "id": "119be863-6fe5-437e-a180-b9892e8746b8"}}

• show
  • Usage: show <class> <id> or <class>.show(<id>)

Prints the string representation of a class instance based on a given id.

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) create User
1e32232d-5a63-4d92-8092-ac3240b29f46
(hbnb)
(hbnb) show User 1e32232d-5a63-4d92-8092-ac3240b29f46
[User] (1e32232d-5a63-4d92-8092-ac3240b29f46) {'id': '1e32232d-5a63-4d92-8092-a
c3240b29f46', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 34, 3, 635828), 
'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 34, 3, 635828)}
(hbnb) 
(hbnb) User.show(1e32232d-5a63-4d92-8092-ac3240b29f46)
[User] (1e32232d-5a63-4d92-8092-ac3240b29f46) {'id': '1e32232d-5a63-4d92-8092-a
c3240b29f46', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 34, 3, 635828), 
'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 34, 3, 635828)}
(hbnb) 

• destroy
  • Usage: destroy <class> <id> or <class>.destroy(<id>)

Deletes a class instance based on a given id. The storage file file.json is updated accordingly.

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) create State
d2d789cd-7427-4920-aaae-88cbcf8bffe2
(hbnb) create Place
3e-8329-4f47-9947-dca80c03d3ed
(hbnb)
(hbnb) destroy State d2d789cd-7427-4920-aaae-88cbcf8bffe2
(hbnb) Place.destroy(03486a3e-8329-4f47-9947-dca80c03d3ed)
(hbnb) quit
$ cat file.json ; echo ""
{}

• all
  • Usage: all or all <class> or <class>.all()

Prints the string representations of all instances of a given class. If no class name is provided, the command prints all instances of every class.

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) create BaseModel
fce2124c-8537-489b-956e-22da455cbee8
(hbnb) create BaseModel
450490fd-344e-47cf-8342-126244c2ba99
(hbnb) create User
b742dbc3-f4bf-425e-b1d4-165f52c6ff81
(hbnb) create User
8f2d75c8-fb82-48e1-8ae5-2544c909a9fe
(hbnb)
(hbnb) all BaseModel
["[BaseModel] (450490fd-344e-47cf-8342-126244c2ba99) {'updated_at': datetime.da
tetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 45, 5, 963516), 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2
, 17, 21, 45, 5, 963516), 'id': '450490fd-344e-47cf-8342-126244c2ba99'}", "[Bas
eModel] (fce2124c-8537-489b-956e-22da455cbee8) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime
(2019, 2, 17, 21, 43, 56, 899348), 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17,
21, 43, 56, 899348), 'id': 'fce2124c-8537-489b-956e-22da455cbee8'}"]
(hbnb)
(hbnb) User.all()
["[User] (8f2d75c8-fb82-48e1-8ae5-2544c909a9fe) {'updated_at': datetime.datetim
e(2019, 2, 17, 21, 44, 44, 428413), 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17
, 21, 44, 44, 428413), 'id': '8f2d75c8-fb82-48e1-8ae5-2544c909a9fe'}", "[User] 
(b742dbc3-f4bf-425e-b1d4-165f52c6ff81) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2
, 17, 21, 44, 15, 974608), 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 44,
15, 974608), 'id': 'b742dbc3-f4bf-425e-b1d4-165f52c6ff81'}"]
(hbnb) 
(hbnb) all
["[User] (8f2d75c8-fb82-48e1-8ae5-2544c909a9fe) {'updated_at': datetime.datetim
e(2019, 2, 17, 21, 44, 44, 428413), 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17
, 21, 44, 44, 428413), 'id': '8f2d75c8-fb82-48e1-8ae5-2544c909a9fe'}", "[BaseMo
del] (450490fd-344e-47cf-8342-126244c2ba99) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(20
19, 2, 17, 21, 45, 5, 963516), 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21,
45, 5, 963516), 'id': '450490fd-344e-47cf-8342-126244c2ba99'}", "[User] (b742db
c3-f4bf-425e-b1d4-165f52c6ff81) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 2
1, 44, 15, 974608), 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 44, 15, 97
4608), 'id': 'b742dbc3-f4bf-425e-b1d4-165f52c6ff81'}", "[BaseModel] (fce2124c-8
537-489b-956e-22da455cbee8) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 4
3, 56, 899348), 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 43, 56, 899348
), 'id': 'fce2124c-8537-489b-956e-22da455cbee8'}"]
(hbnb) 

• count
  • Usage: count <class> or <class>.count()

Retrieves the number of instances of a given class.

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) create Place
12c73223-f3d3-4dec-9629-bd19c8fadd8a
(hbnb) create Place
aa229cbb-5b19-4c32-8562-f90a3437d301
(hbnb) create City
22a51611-17bd-4d8f-ba1b-3bf07d327208
(hbnb) 
(hbnb) count Place
2
(hbnb) city.count()
1
(hbnb) 

• update
  • Usage: update <class> <id> <attribute name> "<attribute value>" or <class>.update(<id>, <attribute name>, <attribute value>)

Updates a class instance based on a given id with a given key/value attribute pair or dictionary of attribute pairs. If update is called with a single key/value attribute pair, only "simple" attributes can be updated (ie. not id, created_at, and updated_at). However, any attribute can be updated by providing a dictionary.

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) create User
6f348019-0499-420f-8eec-ef0fdc863c02
(hbnb)
(hbnb) update User 6f348019-0499-420f-8eec-ef0fdc863c02 first_name "Holberton"
(hbnb) show User 6f348019-0499-420f-8eec-ef0fdc863c02
[User] (6f348019-0499-420f-8eec-ef0fdc863c02) {'created_at': datetime.datetime(
2019, 2, 17, 21, 54, 39, 234382), 'first_name': 'Holberton', 'updated_at': date
time.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 54, 39, 234382), 'id': '6f348019-0499-420f-8eec-
ef0fdc863c02'}
(hbnb)
(hbnb) User.update(6f348019-0499-420f-8eec-ef0fdc863c02, address, "98 Mission S
t")
(hbnb) User.show(6f348019-0499-420f-8eec-ef0fdc863c02)
[User] (6f348019-0499-420f-8eec-ef0fdc863c02) {'created_at': datetime.datetime(
2019, 2, 17, 21, 54, 39, 234382), 'address': '98 Mission St', 'first_name': 'Ho
lberton', 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 17, 21, 54, 39, 234382), 'id
': '6f348019-0499-420f-8eec-ef0fdc863c02'}
(hbnb) 

Testing 📏

Unittests for the HolbertonBnB project are defined in the tests folder. To run the entire test suite simultaneously, execute the following command:

$ python3 unittest -m discover tests

Alternatively, you can specify a single test file to run at a time:

$ python3 unittest -m tests/test_console.py

Authors ✒️

• Jhonatan Arenas <cybernuki>
• Jaime Andrés Gálvez <JamesPagani>