0x00. AirBnB clone - The console

Table of content
About this Project
Setting up
Environment
Execution

About

Team project to build a clone of AirBnB.

The console is a command interpreter to manage objects abstraction between objects and how they are stored.

To see the fundamental background of the project visit the Wiki.

The console will perform the following tasks:

• create a new object
• retrieve an object from a file
• do operations on objects
• destroy an object

Resources

• cmd module
• uuid module
• datetime
• unittest module
• args/kwargs
• Python test cheatsheet
• cmd module wiki page
• python unittest

Storage

All the classes are handled by the Storage engine in the FileStorage Class.

Environment

Style guidelines:

• pycodestyle (version 2.7.*)
• PEP8

All the development and testing was run over an operating system Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using programming language Python 3.10. The editors used were VIM Editor, Control version using Git

Setting-Up

git clone https://github.com/mhiskall282/AirBnB_clone.git

change to the AirBnb directory and run the command:

 ./console.py

How to use it

Execution

In interactive mode:

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

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

(hbnb) 
(hbnb) 
(hbnb) quit
$

In non-interactive

$ 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) 
$

AUTHORS

• John OKyere