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Write a command interpreter to manage your AirBnB objects.

This is the first step towards building your first full web application: the AirBnB clone. This first step is very important because you will use what you build during this project with all other following projects: HTML/CSS templating, database storage, API, front-end integration…

Each task is linked and will help you 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