for delete author - deletes all posts linked to author. added user st…

README.md

@@ -1,8 +1,44 @@
 # Blogger CLI+ORM Project
 
-## Create authors and posts to be persisted to a relational database backend, all within the CLI!
+This a a group project that was created by Dan Jacoby and Grant Cummings to showcase our skills we have aquired learning how to interact with a database. The project uses Python along with SQL commands to interact with a sqlite3 database. As a user you will be able to do the following:
+
+## User Stories:
+
+* As a user, I would like to create Blog Posts linked to a specific author
+* As a user, I would like to link each post to a specific category
+* As a user, I would like to view all Authors
+* As a user, I would like to find an author by their ID
+* As a user, I would like to find an author by their name
+* As a user, I would like to view posts by a specific author
+* As a user, I would like to view all posts by all authors
+* As a user, I would like to view all posts by a specific category
+* As a user, I would like to know how many posts a specific author has created
+* As a user, I would like to edit an existing user's name
+* As a user, I would like to edit an existing post
+* As a user, I would like to delete an author and all the posts linked to that author
+* As a user, I would like to delete a specific post
+
+## Requirements:
 
-This a a group project that was created by Don Jacody and Grant Cummings to showcase our skills we have aquired learning how to interact with a database. The project uses Python along with SQL commands to interact with a sqlite3 database. As a user you will be able to do the following:
+* User should be able to exit the terminal from the main menu
+* When creating an authors name, name  must by a string and between 1 and 15 characters
+* When creating a new post, user must link the post to an existing author
+* If no author exists, user will be prompted to create an author
+* For each post, a title must be given and be between 1 and 20 charachters
+* For each post, a category must be linked from a list of given categories
+* For each post, the user must enter content for the post
+* If the user doesn't want to add an author or post, they should be able to navigate back to the main menu
+* When searching for author related content, if the author doesn't exist, it should error out
+* If the user doesn't want to view author or post related content, they should be able to navigate back to the main menu
+* For editing authors, if there are no authors to edit, it should bring the user back to the edit menu
+* For editing posts, if there are no posts to edit, it should bring the user back to the edit menu
+* If the user doesn't want to edit author or post, they should be able to navigate back to the main menu
+* When deleting an author, both the author and the related posts should be deleted
+* If the user doesn't want to delete an author or post, they should be able to navigate back to the main menu
+
+
+
+## Create authors and posts to be persisted to a relational database backend, all within the CLI!
 
 * Initially choose between a set of options to redirect you to 4 different types of menus that have to do with create, read, update and deleting authors or posts
 * Create authors to be intialized with a name and favorite category

lib/helpers.py

@@ -170,8 +170,15 @@ def delete_author():
             print("Author id is not in list")
             author_id = input(f"To remove an author, select an author id from this list {author_ids} ")
         selected_author = Author.find_by_id(author_id)
-        print(f"You deleted {selected_author.name}")
+        print(f"You deleted {selected_author.name} and all their posts")
+        author_posts = [post for post in Post.get_all()]
+        for post in author_posts:
+            if str(post.author_id) == author_id:
+                post.delete()
+            else:
+                continue
         selected_author.delete()
+
     else:
         print("There are no authors to delete")
         delete_menu()