kimaita / airbnb_clone

An AirBnB clone, part of the alx SWE curriculum,

AirBnB Clone

The larger AirBnB clone project has the goal of creating and deploying a simple copy of the AirBnb website. It consists of 4 parts:

1. Command interpreter: to manipulate data without a visual interface, like in a Shell (perfect for development and debugging)
2. Website: shows the final product to everybody: static and dynamic (the front-end).
3. Storage: a database or files (data = objects)
4. API: provides a communication interface between the front-end and data (retrieve, create, delete, update them)

The Console

The console project is a command interpreter for use in manipulating data. It enables managing the objects of the AirBnB clone project without a visual interface. Here we will be creating a storage engine that abstracts objects from their storage and persistence; offering basic CRUD functionality and a few other functions.

The specific objectives in this part of the project are:

• Creation of the data model
• CRUD functionality via a console
• JSON file persistence

Starting

Clone this repo and navigate into it:

git clone https://github.com/nooby6/AirBnB_clone
cd AirBnB_clone

The python scripts in this project start with the shebang #!/usr/bin/python3 and so can be executed directly on a Linux system.
To start the console:

• Interactive mode

  $ ./console.py
  (hbnb)

• Non-interactive/Command mode

  ./console.py cmd args

For other platforms, pass in the path to the Python executable or if already added to path, use the appropriate python command(python, python3)

• Interactive mode

  $ python console.py
  (hbnb)

• Non-interactive/Command mode

  python console.py cmd args

Usage

Examples