StoreBookingEngine

Overall Objective

This guide will help you implement StoreBookingEngine within a target development window of 8 days, creating an implementation of the Open Booking API.

Introduction

The StoreBookingEngine is essentially a number of abstract classes which can be implemented to create a fully operation Open Booking API.

Example implementation of StoreBookingEngine

The BookingSystem.AspNetCore and BookingSystem.AspNetFramework projects provides a good example of an implementation of StoreBookingEngine using a OpenActive.FakeDatabase.NET - which offers a fake implementation of a booking system backend.

The following are required for a minimal implementation:

• Feeds - generate the RPDE feeds

• Stores - methods to execute various booking operations that are executed by the StoreBookingEngine

• IdComponents - customisable composite IDs to represent the key entities within your system

• EngineConfig.cs - configuration of the StoreBookingEngine

• Startup.cs or ServiceConfig.cs - initialisation

Additionally, the following are required to bind the StoreBookingEngine to the web framework:

• Helpers - convert JSON requests to string, and responses to controller return types.

• Controllers - call the StoreBookingEngine from the Open Booking API endpoints.