CodewithSegNet / AirBnB_clone

A software architectural structure learning project

Airbnb Clone Project Practice

writing a command interpreter to manage the AirBnB objects.

This is the first step towards building a full web application: the AirBnB clone. This first step is very important because it's what i will be using to build during this project with all the other following projects: HTML/CSS templating, database storage, API, front-end integrations

Each task is linked and will helps to:

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

What’s a command interpreter?

Do you remember the Shell? It’s exactly the same but limited to a specific use-case. In our case, we want to be able to manage the objects of our project:

• Create a new object (ex: a new User or a new Place)
• Retrieve an object from a file, a database etc…
• Do operations on objects (count, compute stats, etc…)
• Update attributes of an object
• Destroy an object

Learning Objectives

At the end of this project, you are expected to be able to explain to anyone, without the help of Google:

• How to create a Python package
• How to create a command interpreter in Python using the cmd module
• What is Unit testing and how to implement it in a large project
• How to serialize and deserialize a Class
• How to write and read a JSON file
• How to manage datetime
• What is an UUID
• What is *args and how to use it
• What is **kwargs and how to use it
• How to handle named arguments in a functions

AUTHOR

• Olusegun Emmanuel
• Shogo Akadiri