The RESTful API is a crucial component of the AirBnB project at Holberton School. The goal of the AirBnB project is to eventually deploy our server as a simple copy of the AirBnB Website (HBnB). This segment involves creating a RESTful API to manage objects for the AirBnB (HBnB) website, which will cover fundamental concepts of web development and backend programming.

• Create a new resource (e.g., a new User or a new Place)
• Retrieve a resource from a file, a database, etc.
• Perform operations on resources (count, compute statistics, etc.)
• Update attributes of a resource
• Destroy a resource

• Environment
• Installation
• File Descriptions
• Usage
• Examples of use
• Bugs
• Authors
• License

This project is interpreted/tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS using python3 (version 3.4.3)

• Clone this repository: git clone "https://github.com/stanwukong/AirBnB_clone.git"
• Access AirBnb directory: cd AirBnB_clone
• Run hbnb(interactively): ./console and enter command
• Run hbnb(non-interactively): echo "<command>" | ./console.py

console.py - the console contains the entry point of the command interpreter. List of commands this console current supports:

• EOF - exits console
• quit - exits console
• <emptyline> - overwrites default emptyline method and does nothing
• create - Creates a new instance ofBaseModel, saves it (to the JSON file) and prints the id
• destroy - Deletes an instance based on the class name and id (save the change into the JSON file).
• show - Prints the string representation of an instance based on the class name and id.
• all - Prints all string representation of all instances based or not on the class name.
• update - Updates an instance based on the class name and id by adding or updating attribute (save the change into the JSON file).

base_model.py - The BaseModel class from which future classes will be derived

• def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs) - Initialization of the base model
• def __str__(self) - String representation of the BaseModel class
• def save(self) - Updates the attribute updated_at with the current datetime
• def to_dict(self) - returns a dictionary containing all keys/values of the instance

Classes inherited from Base Model:

• amenity.py
• city.py
• place.py
• review.py
• state.py
• user.py

file_storage.py - serializes instances to a JSON file & deserializes back to instances

• def all(self) - returns the dictionary __objects
• def new(self, obj) - sets in __objects the obj with key .id
• def save(self) - serializes __objects to the JSON file (path: __file_path)
• def reload(self) - deserializes the JSON file to __objects

/test_models/test_base_model.py - Contains the TestBaseModel and TestBaseModelDocs classes TestBaseModelDocs class:

• def setUpClass(cls)- Set up for the doc tests
• def test_pep8_conformance_base_model(self) - Test that models/base_model.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_pep8_conformance_test_base_model(self) - Test that tests/test_models/test_base_model.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_bm_module_docstring(self) - Test for the base_model.py module docstring
• def test_bm_class_docstring(self) - Test for the BaseModel class docstring
• def test_bm_func_docstrings(self) - Test for the presence of docstrings in BaseModel methods

TestBaseModel class:

• def test_is_base_model(self) - Test that the instatiation of a BaseModel works
• def test_created_at_instantiation(self) - Test created_at is a pub. instance attribute of type datetime
• def test_updated_at_instantiation(self) - Test updated_at is a pub. instance attribute of type datetime
• def test_diff_datetime_objs(self) - Test that two BaseModel instances have different datetime objects

/test_models/test_amenity.py - Contains the TestAmenityDocs class:

• def setUpClass(cls) - Set up for the doc tests
• def test_pep8_conformance_amenity(self) - Test that models/amenity.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_pep8_conformance_test_amenity(self) - Test that tests/test_models/test_amenity.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_amenity_module_docstring(self) - Test for the amenity.py module docstring
• def test_amenity_class_docstring(self) - Test for the Amenity class docstring

/test_models/test_city.py - Contains the TestCityDocs class:

• def setUpClass(cls) - Set up for the doc tests
• def test_pep8_conformance_city(self) - Test that models/city.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_pep8_conformance_test_city(self) - Test that tests/test_models/test_city.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_city_module_docstring(self) - Test for the city.py module docstring
• def test_city_class_docstring(self) - Test for the City class docstring

/test_models/test_file_storage.py - Contains the TestFileStorageDocs class:

• def setUpClass(cls) - Set up for the doc tests
• def test_pep8_conformance_file_storage(self) - Test that models/file_storage.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_pep8_conformance_test_file_storage(self) - Test that tests/test_models/test_file_storage.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_file_storage_module_docstring(self) - Test for the file_storage.py module docstring
• def test_file_storage_class_docstring(self) - Test for the FileStorage class docstring

/test_models/test_place.py - Contains the TestPlaceDoc class:

• def setUpClass(cls) - Set up for the doc tests
• def test_pep8_conformance_place(self) - Test that models/place.py conforms to PEP8.
• def test_pep8_conformance_test_place(self) - Test that tests/test_models/test_place.py conforms to PEP8.
• def test_place_module_docstring(self) - Test for the place.py module docstring
• def test_place_class_docstring(self) - Test for the Place class docstring

/test_models/test_review.py - Contains the TestReviewDocs class:

• def setUpClass(cls) - Set up for the doc tests
• def test_pep8_conformance_review(self) - Test that models/review.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_pep8_conformance_test_review(self) - Test that tests/test_models/test_review.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_review_module_docstring(self) - Test for the review.py module docstring
• def test_review_class_docstring(self) - Test for the Review class docstring

/test_models/state.py - Contains the TestStateDocs class:

• def setUpClass(cls) - Set up for the doc tests
• def test_pep8_conformance_state(self) - Test that models/state.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_pep8_conformance_test_state(self) - Test that tests/test_models/test_state.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_state_module_docstring(self) - Test for the state.py module docstring
• def test_state_class_docstring(self) - Test for the State class docstring

/test_models/user.py - Contains the TestUserDocs class:

• def setUpClass(cls) - Set up for the doc tests
• def test_pep8_conformance_user(self) - Test that models/user.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_pep8_conformance_test_user(self) - Test that tests/test_models/test_user.py conforms to PEP8
• def test_user_module_docstring(self) - Test for the user.py module docstring
• def test_user_class_docstring(self) - Test for the User class docstring

vagrantAirBnB_clone$./console.py
(hbnb) help

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF  all  create  destroy  help  quit  show  update

(hbnb) all MyModel
** class doesn't exist **
(hbnb) create BaseModel
7da56403-cc45-4f1c-ad32-bfafeb2bb050
(hbnb) all BaseModel
[[BaseModel] (7da56403-cc45-4f1c-ad32-bfafeb2bb050) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 28, 9, 50, 46, 772167), 'id': '7da56403-cc45-4f1c-ad32-bfafeb2bb050', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 28, 9, 50, 46, 772123)}]
(hbnb) show BaseModel 7da56403-cc45-4f1c-ad32-bfafeb2bb050
[BaseModel] (7da56403-cc45-4f1c-ad32-bfafeb2bb050) {'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 28, 9, 50, 46, 772167), 'id': '7da56403-cc45-4f1c-ad32-bfafeb2bb050', 'created_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 28, 9, 50, 46, 772123)}
(hbnb) destroy BaseModel 7da56403-cc45-4f1c-ad32-bfafeb2bb050
(hbnb) show BaseModel 7da56403-cc45-4f1c-ad32-bfafeb2bb050
** no instance found **
(hbnb) quit

python3 -m api.v1.app

The API will be available at http://localhost:5000/api/v1.

Here are some example API calls:

• Create a new user:

POST /users
{
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "password": "password123",
    "first_name": "John",
    "last_name": "Smith"
}

• Retrieve all users:

GET /users

• Retrieve a specific user:

GET /users/<user_id>

• Update a user:

PUT /users/<user_id>
{
    "first_name": "Jane"
}

• Delete a user:

DELETE /users/<user_id>

No known bugs at this time.

Alexa Orrico - Github / Twitter
Jennifer Huang - Github / Twitter Femi Ajanaku - Github / Twitter

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