This repository contains the initial stage of a student project to build a clone of the AirBnB website. This stage implements a backend interface, or console, to manage program data. Console commands allow the user to create, update, and destroy objects, as well as manage file storage. Using a system of JSON serialization/deserialization, storage is persistent between sessions.
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First clone this repository.
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Once the repository is cloned locate the "console.py" file and run it as follows:
/AirBnB_clone$ ./console.py
- When this command is run the following prompt should appear:
(hbnb)
- This prompt designates you are in the "HBnB" console. There are a variety of commands available within the console program.
* create - Creates an instance based on given class
* destroy - Destroys an object based on class and UUID
* show - Shows an object based on class and UUID
* all - Shows all objects the program has access to, or all objects of a given class
* update - Updates existing attributes an object based on class name and UUID
* quit - Exits the program (EOF will as well)
Usage: create <class_name>
(hbnb) create BaseModel
(hbnb) create BaseModel
3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8
(hbnb)
Usage: show <class_name> <_id>
(hbnb) show BaseModel 3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8
[BaseModel] (3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8) {'id': '3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 18, 14, 21, 12, 96959),
'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 18, 14, 21, 12, 96971)}
(hbnb)
Usage: destroy <class_name> <_id>
(hbnb) destroy BaseModel 3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8
(hbnb) show BaseModel 3aa5babc-efb6-4041-bfe9-3cc9727588f8
** no instance found **
(hbnb)
Usage: update <class_name> <_id>
(hbnb) update BaseModel b405fc64-9724-498f-b405-e4071c3d857f first_name "person"
(hbnb) show BaseModel b405fc64-9724-498f-b405-e4071c3d857f
[BaseModel] (b405fc64-9724-498f-b405-e4071c3d857f) {'id': 'b405fc64-9724-498f-b405-e4071c3d857f', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 18, 14, 33, 45, 729889),
'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 18, 14, 33, 45, 729907), 'first_name': 'person'}
(hbnb)
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