About the task

• Create a simple API for a Hotel Booking System using Laravel to manage hotel rooms, bookings, and customer interactions.
• You are tasked with building a system for a hotel chain to streamline their room booking process, manage customer interactions, and handle payments securely. The system needs to track room availability, manage booking, handle customer details, and payment

Models and Relationships:

• Models: Room, Booking, Customer, Payment
• A Room can have many Bookings.
• A Booking belongs to one Room and one Customer.
• A Customer can have many Bookings.
• A Booking can have many Payments.

Attributes:

• Room: number, type, price_per_night, status
• Booking: room_id, customer_id, check_in_date, check_out_date, total_price
• Customer: name, email, phone_number
• Payment: booking_id, amount, payment_date, status

Implement RESTful API endpoints to handle:

• Room management (retrieval, creation, and detailed view)
• Booking management (retrieval and creation)
• Customer management (retrieval and creation)
• Payment recording against a booking

Implement RESTful API endpoints to handle:

• Implement token-based authentication.
• Only authenticated users can add rooms, create bookings, add customers, and record payments.

Validation and Error Handling:

• Ensure all input data is validated
• Implement proper error handling for bad requests and unauthorized access.

Additionals:

• Implement a room availability checker to prevent double bookings.
• Implement a notification system that alerts hotel staff when a new booking is made or canceled.
• Use Laravel’s event and listener system with using laravel queues to handle these notifications.
• Include unit tests to ensure that all API functionality works as expected.

Implementation

• Clone the repository

• Install dependencies: composer install

• Configure database connection in .env

• Add database migration tables: php artisan migrate

• To run queues, start the process: php artisan queue:work

Configure Unit Tests

• Create second database for using in unit tests

• Add the db credentials into .env file:

• DB_TEST_DATABASE=test_db

• DB_TEST_USERNAME=test_db_username

• DB_TEST_PASSWORD= test_db_password

• Run migrations into test database: php artisan migrate:fresh --database=testing

Use Postman for tests

• Navigate to registration page http://localhost/PROJECT-FOLDER/public/api/register and make new User:

• Login in http://localhost/PROJECT-FOLDER/public/api/login to get your token

• You must use this token inside all future API requests, following this example:

Use x-www-form-urlencoded

Routes

Queue payload

Examples