Hotel-Reservation

Solution to REST API project posted in the MCDA5550 class by Prof. Sanjeevi Ramachandran

Functions

Hotels can be viewed and new hotels can be added into the database.
Users can book an Hotel by providing the hotel name, check-in date, check-out date and information of the guests.
Check-in and Check-out date validations are added.
- Check-out date must be greater than the check-in date.
- Check-in date must be greater than the current date.
Character field validations are added.
- City field in the Hotel model must only contain alphabets.

Setup

The first thing to do is to clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/vedantthapa/hotel-reservation.git
$ cd hotel-reservation

Then install the dependencies:

# using pip
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

# using Conda
$ conda create --name <env_name> --file requirements.txt

Once the dependencies has finished downloading, edit your database settings in the DATABASES dictionary in the hotelsite/settings.py file.

After configuring the database run the below commands to add tables into the schema.

$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate

Now, run the app by executing the following command

$ python manage.py runserver

API Endpoints

Access endpoints using Postman or any other API platform to do a GET or POST request.

Hotel: http://127.0.0.1:8000/app/hotels/
Booking: http://127.0.0.1:8000/app/booking/

POST Request Params

Hotel

{
  "name": "Hilton",
  "email": "hilton@hilton.ca",
  "city": "Dartmouth"
}

Booking

{
  "hotel": "Hilton",
  "check_in": "2024-03-08",
  "check_out": "2024-03-10",
  "guest": [
    {
      "name": "Mike",
      "age": 24,
      "email": "mike@gmail.com"
    },
    {
      "name": "Robin",
      "age": 39,
      "email": "rj@yahoo.com"
    }
  ]
}