AirBnB Clone

Purpose

The goal of the project is to deploy on our server a simple copy of the AirBnB website.

We won’t implement all the features, only some of them to cover all fundamental concepts of the higher level programming track.

After 4 months, we will have a complete web application composed by:

A command interpreter to manipulate data without a visual interface, like in a Shell (perfect for development and debugging)
A website (the front-end) that shows the final product to everybody: static and dynamic
A database or files that store data (data = objects)
An API that provides a communication interface between the front-end and your data (retrieve, create, delete, update them)

Final product

Concepts to learn

Unittest - and please work all together on tests cases
Python packages concept page
Serialization/Deserialization
*args, **kwargs
datetime
More coming soon!

Steps

The console

create your data model
manage (create, update, destroy, etc) objects via a console / command interpreter
store and persist objects to a file (JSON file) The first piece is to manipulate a powerful storage system. This storage engine will give us an abstraction between “My object” and “How they are stored and persisted”. This means: from your console code (the command interpreter itself) and from the front-end and RestAPI you will build later, you won’t have to pay attention (take care) of how your objects are stored.

This abstraction will also allow you to change the type of storage easily without updating all of your codebase.

The console will be a tool to validate this storage engine

Web static

learn HTML/CSS
create the HTML of your application
create template of each object

MySQL storage

replace the file storage by a Database storage
map your models to a table in database by using an O.R.M.

Web framework - templating

create your first web server in Python
make your static HTML file dynamic by using objects stored in a file or database

RESTful API

expose all your objects stored via a JSON web interface
manipulate your objects via a RESTful API

Web dynamic

learn JQuery
load objects from the client side by using your own RESTful API

Execution

description of the command interpreter: The program starts by running the command ./console.py in the terminal. The program allows you to interact with your it by typing commands.

The program displays a prompt. The prompt symbol is (hbnb).
The user types a command and presses Enter.
The program parses the command into its component parts.
The program finds function that implements the command.
The program executes the command.
The program displays the output of the command.
The program returns to step 1. This happens until it's exited.

Interactive mode

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

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

(hbnb) 
(hbnb) 
(hbnb) quit
$

Non-interactive mode

$ 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) 
$

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