The console is the first part of the AirBnB clone project which aims to deploy a simple copy of the AirBnB website to cover all fundamental concepts of the ALX School higher level programming track.

This first and starting of the project focuses on creating a command interpreter that allows to:

• create the data model.
• manage (create, update and destroy) objects via a console.
• store and persist objects to a file (JSON file).

/models directory constains all classes used for the project.
basemodel.py file contains the base class (BaseModel) of all models in the project:

• user.py - file contains the User class.
• state.py - file contains the State class.
• city.py - file contains the Cityclass.
• amenity.py - file contains the Amenity class.
• place.py - file contains the Place class.
• review.py - file contains the Review class.

/models/engine directory contains the class that handles JSON serialization and deserialization.
file_storage.py - file contains FileStorage class.

/tests directory contains all unit test cases for this project.

console.py the console contains the entry point of the command interpreter.

|── console.py
├── models/
│   ├── amenity.py
│   ├── base_model.py
│   ├── city.py
│   ├── place.py
│   ├── review.py
│   ├── state.py
│   |── user.py
│   └── engine/
│       └── file_storage.py
└── tests/
    |── test_console.py
    └── test_models/
        ├── test_amenity.py
        ├── test_base_model.py
        ├── test_city.py
        ├── test_place.py
        ├── test_review.py
        ├── test_state.py
        |── test_user.py
        └── test_engine/
            └── test_file_storage.py

This project was interpreted/compiled and tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using python3 (version 3.8.5).

To use the console you must have python3 installed and the repository cloned
(git clone https://github.com/Blessingdev233/AirBnB_clone.git).

To start the console you only need to run ./console in the root of the repository.

The console works like this in interactive mode:

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

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

(hbnb) 
(hbnb) 
(hbnb) quit
$

But also in non-interactive mode: (https://github.com/Kwapee/simple-shell)

$ 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) 
$