0x00. AirBnB clone - The console

This is the first step towards building a full web application: the AirBnB clone. This first because you will use what you build during this project with all other following projects: HTML/CSS templating, database storage, API, front-end integration…

The tasks herein provide the basics for creating the Airbnb clone:

HOW?

1. Put in place a parent class (called BaseModel) to take care of the initialization, serialization and deserialization of your future instances
2. Create a simple flow of serialization/deserialization: Instance <-> Dictionary <-> JSON string <-> file.
3. Create all classes used for AirBnB (User, State, City, Place…) that inherit from BaseModel
4. Create the first abstracted storage engine of the project: File storage. create all unittests to validate all our classes and storage engine.

The Console

This is the interface that allows testing the mainpulation of data held and processed by the clone system.

1. HOW TO START IT.

The console entry point is initiated by entering:

./console.py from the root folder of the project folder.

2. HOW TO USE IT.

There are a few commands accepted by the console to create, read, update and destroy objects being managed by the program.

Typical syntax looks as follows:

<command> <arguements if present>

Example: (hbnb) help <topic> - Provides extra information on the uses for different functions.(Lists all documented commands if topic is not provided.)

(hbnb) create <class name> - Generates a new instance of <class name> and returns its UUID

*** Further information on functions can be retrieved via the console help function. ***