Flight Trip Builder is a simple API for building flights trip based on simple request from user. The project is built using Laravel framework.
Run composer install
Copy .env.example into your .env file with cp .env.example .env
Run php artisan key:generate to generate Laravel encryption key.
Check the .env file, change the DB config to the your local DB config.
Run php artisan migrate to migrate database.
Run php artisan db:seed to add sample data to the tables.
Run php artisan serve, by default, http://127.0.0.1:8000/ should be up and running !!!
For simplicity purpose, the sample datas provide 3 airports from Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver respectively in the airports table. 2 airlines: Air Canada and Air Transat are provided in the airlines table.
24 flights with routes from and to : Montreal<->Toronto, Toronto<->Vancouver, Montreal<->Vancouver, from both 2 airlines, with two schedule hour 07:00 and 15:00 are created.
The real physical distance fact is ignored, These airports are considered as 3 points: A, B and C. (meaning there will be flight options from Montreal to Vancouver and then to Toronto if user want to arrive from Montreal to Toronto).
Open your favorite API client to test, mine is Postman ! Add these parameters:
{
"departure_airport": "YUL",
"arrival_airport": "YTZ",
"departure_date": "2021-02-01",
"return_date": "2021-02-20",
"trip_type": "round-trip",
"sort_by": "price",
"sort_order": "asc",
"preferred_airline": "Air Canada"
}
Optional Parameters are: sort_by, sort_order and preferred_airline. return_date is not required as long as the trip_type value is one-way.
Example of test url: http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/search_routes?departure_airport=YUL&arrival_airport=YTZ&departure_date=2021-02-01&return_date=2021-02-20&trip_type=round-trip
** Remember to set your Content-Type Header to application/json !
** Feel free to fork.
Vinh Truong https://github.com/vinhtruong94
Code released under the MIT license.