Summary
Product details
Expedia.com is one of the most popular travel web sites on the Internet. It also has localized sites for 21 conuntries. Expedia Affiliate Network Hotel API can provide you with information and availability for over 95,000 hotels and vacation rentals worldwide. Hotel API of the version 3 offers a wide variety of parameters that can target or filter a search for the most relevant list of available hotels.
Expedia Affiliate Network Hotel API
Expedia Affiliate Network Hotel API Version 3 is the latest and the most modern version of the EAN API. It supports 4 different protocols of collaboration – XML, JSON, REST and SOAP, so the user can shoes whatever is convenient for specific integration situation. In this interface we used SOAP-based approach.
The Hotel API allows performing the following operations:
- Request Hotel List
- Request Hotel Information
- Location Geo Functions
- Request Hotel Rooms
- Request Rate Rules
- Request Payment Types
- Book a Reservation
- Request Itinerary Record
- Cancel a Reservation
In this interface we request the hotels list from the EAN. You can read more about the EAN API at http://developer.ean.com/docs/read/hotels/Version_3.
Interface Definition
The create interface gets the data from the file on the hard drive. This file is defined in the custom XML (you can find it in attachments). This custom XML is transformet to the appropriate EAN request XML. Then the data get wrapped to SOAP anvelope and sent to the EAN web service. And after getting the response interface transforms data to the HTML file and sends it via email.The error handling is on place too - if we get the response from EAN that contains an error, it is reported via email. If error is happened during interface execution, it also caught and sent to the same email.
Environment Settings
This interface depends on a set of environemnt settings that need to be defined before actually using it. Here's the list of the settings that need to be defined:
- Input_Xml_File_Name
- Input_Xml_File_Path
- Mail_Error_From_Mail_Field
- Mail_Error_Server_Name
- Mail_Error_Server_Password
- Mail_Error_Server_Port
- Mail_Error_Server_User
- Mail_Error_To_Mail_Field
- Mail_Response_From_Mail_Field
- Mail_Response_Server_Name
- Mail_Response_Server_Password
- Mail_Response_Server_Port
- Mail_Response_Server_User
- Mail_Response_To_Mail_Field
- Processed_Xml_Files_Path
See attached tutorial to get more details on how to set environment settings in your interface.
Release Details
This is the initial release of the Expedia Hotels Integration Interface Template.