Booking hackathon November 2016

Quick Start

docker-compose build
docker-compose run --rm backendpl carton install
docker-compose run --rm frontend npm install
docker-compose up

Then, once all the services are up, load conference data (+ geocode and summaries) to the Python backend:

docker-compose exec backendpy python manage.py migrate
docker-compose exec backendpy python manage.py load_data
docker-compose exec backendpy python manage.py geocode
docker-compose exec backendpy python manage.py summarize

Then hit http://localhost.

Accommodation API

Basics

• not compulsory
• restful
• basic http auth
• https
• cors enabled

New feature: swagger spec

http://developers.booking.com/api/technical.json

Static API endpoints

• autocomplete
• getHotels
• getBookingcomReview{,Score}s
• goetHotel{Facilities,DescriptionPhotos,DescriptionTranslations}
• getRooms

Realtime endpoints

• getHotelAvailabilityV2
• getBlockAvailability

Terms and Phrases

• Availibility: ability to book
• Block: the “booking”, has a price
• Policy: information on cancelation, deposits, particulars
• Occupancy: number of people in a Block
• Mealplan: included meals in Block
• Facility: amenities provided
• Room: static things in a room
• Property: accommodation venue, hotel/apartment, holiday home, etc

New Ideas

• As a traveller, I want to share my itinerary to my followers so they can experience my journey!
• As someone who would like to travel to a specific place but have no idea what attractions are there, I want to have something suggest places depending on my state (e.g. Facebook feed) so I can best enjoy my travel!
• As someone who has photos of places I want to travel, I’d like to have something suggest to me based on these places
• As someone who would ask about travel, I’d like to have a search box to put my question in so I can get answers!
• As someone attending conferences, I’d like to have suggestions for booking + attractions along with my conference registration

Chosen: conferences + booking

Stack

• frontend: AngularJS
• backend: Django

API

GET /conferences/

• emit a list of conferences

  GET /conferences/
      

  #+RESULTS:
  [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Accessibility Camp Bay Area 2016",
      "url": "http://www.accessibilitycampbay.org/",
      "start_date": "2016-10-29",
      "end_date": "2016-10-29",
      "cfp_date": null,
      "city": "San Francisco",
      "state": "California",
      "country": "USA",
      "topics": "accessibility, a11y",
      "languages": "English",
      "code_of_conduct": "",
      "twitter": "A11yCampBay",
      "facebook": "",
      "accessibility": "",
      "diversity_tickets": null,
      "youtube": ""
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "Accessibility Camp DC 2014",
      "url": "http://www.accessibilitycampdc.org/",
      "start_date": "2014-10-11",
      "end_date": "2014-10-11",
      "cfp_date": null,
      "city": "Washington",
      "state": "DC",
      "country": "USA",
      "topics": "accessibility, a11y",
      "languages": "English",
      "code_of_conduct": "",
      "twitter": "",
      "facebook": "",
      "accessibility": "",
      "diversity_tickets": null,
      "youtube": ""
    },
    ...
  ]
      

GET /conferences/:id/

• emit details of conference specified by its id

  GET /conferences/1/
      

  #+RESULTS:
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Accessibility Camp Bay Area 2016",
    "url": "http://www.accessibilitycampbay.org/",
    "start_date": "2016-10-29",
    "end_date": "2016-10-29",
    "cfp_date": null,
    "city": "San Francisco",
    "state": "California",
    "country": "USA",
    "topics": "accessibility, a11y",
    "languages": "English",
    "code_of_conduct": "",
    "twitter": "A11yCampBay",
    "facebook": "",
    "accessibility": "",
    "diversity_tickets": null,
    "youtube": ""
  }
      

GET /conferences/:id/hotels/

• emits a list of hotels near the conference venue (default 15km)

  GET /conferences/:id/hotels/