The goal of the HBnB project is to deploy a simple clone of AirBnB on our own server. This project is built over 4 months as part of the curriculum of the first year at Holberton School.

At the end of the 4 months, the project will have:

• 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 the data (retrieve, create, delete, update them)

Here's a simple diagram of the entire stack of the final product:

Flask is the web framework used for the HBnB project. In the web_flask are all the python scripts used to start a Flask app.

Usage:

• Dump data in the MySQL database with 10-dump.sql or 100-dump.sql, for scripts 10-hbnb_filters.py and 100-hbnb.py respectively:

cat 100-dump.sql | mysql -uroot -p

• Set the environment variables and execute the Flask scripts like this:

HBNB_MYSQL_USER=hbnb_dev HBNB_MYSQL_PWD=hbnb_dev_pwd HBNB_MYSQL_HOST=localhost HBNB_MYSQL_DB=hbnb_dev_db HBNB_TYPE_STORAGE=db python3 -m web_flask.100-hbnb

• In the browser, type:

http://0.0.0.0:5000/hbnb

You should see the rendered web page!

HBnB has two storage types: a File Storage and a DataBase storage. The folder engine contains those storage types definitions. Here is a representation of all the data:

The File Storage system manages the serialization and deserialization of all the data, following a JSON format.

A FileStorage class is defined in file_storage.py with methods to follow this flow: <object> -> to_dict() -> <dictionary> -> JSON dump -> <json string> -> FILE -> <json string> -> JSON load -> <dictionary> -> <object>

If the environment variable HBNB_TYPE_STORAGE is set to 'file', the init.py file instantiates the FileStorage class called storage, followed by a call to the method reload() on that instance. This allows the storage to be reloaded automatically at initialization, which recovers the serialized data.

The DataBase Storage system manages communication to and from a MySQL server, where data will be stored in a database depending on the HBNB_MYSQL_DB variable value.

A DBStorage class is defined in db_storage.py and uses the SQAlchemy module to interact with MySQL.

If the environment variable HBNB_TYPE_STORAGE is set to 'db', the init.py file instantiates the DBStorage class called storage, followed by a call to the method reload() on that instance. This allows the storage to be reloaded automatically at initialization, which recovers the data from the defined database.

To run any script with the DataBase storage, declare those environment variables:

HBNB_MYSQL_USER=hbnb_dev
HBNB_MYSQL_PWD=hbnb_dev_pwd
HBNB_MYSQL_HOST=localhost
HBNB_MYSQL_DB=hbnb_dev_db
HBNB_TYPE_STORAGE=db

This is the console /command interpreter for the Holberton Airbnb clone project. The console can be used to store objects in and retrieve objects from a JSON.

• BaseModel
• User
• State
• City
• Amenity
• Place
• Review

• create - create an object
• show - show an object (based on id)
• destroy - destroy an object
• all - show all objects, of one type or all types
• quit/EOF - quit the console
• help - see descriptions of commands

To start, navigate to the project folder and enter ./console.py in the shell.

create <class name> Ex: create BaseModel

show <class name> <object id> Ex: show User my_id

destroy <class name> <object id> Ex: destroy Place my_place_id

all or all <class name> Ex: all or all State

quit or EOF

help or help <command> Ex: help or help quit

Additionally, the console supports <class name>.<command>(<parameters>) syntax. Ex: City.show(my_city_id)

All unittests can be found in the tests directory.

Laurels Echichinwo Ozy