Cottonglow / BookingsApi

Bookings API

A basic booking api to reserve up to four seats at a venue. A name and email is required for each seat that is booked and a person is not able to book several seats under their name and email.

Instructions

• Clone the repository.
• Load the project into Visual Studio.
• Run the API.

Endpoints

• Get all seats:

  GET http://localhost:49979/api/bookings/

• Get all available seats:

  GET http://localhost:49979/api/bookings/available

• Get a particular booking:

  GET http://localhost:49979/api/bookings/{seatId} with a given seat ID, eg A1.

• Create a booking:

  POST to http://localhost:49979/api/bookings with the below JSON in the body.

  [
    {
      "seatId" : "C7",
      "userName": "John234",
      "userEmail": "[e-mail]"
    },
    {
      "seatId" : "C8",
      "userName": "John345",
      "userEmail": "[e-mail]"
    },
    {
      "seatId" : "C9",
      "userName": "Johnny12",
      "userEmail": "[e-mail]"
    },
    {
      "seatId" : "D10", 
      "userName": "Jo245hny",
      "userEmail": "[e-mail]"
    }
  ]
  

Future Improvements

• Attach a database (currently uses in memory database).
• Add authentication.
• Add authorisation.
• Add unit tests.
• Add a cancelations system to free up seats.
• Add a reservation system to reserve seats while paying or other.
• Add restrictions on the GET calls for security.
• Add payment system.