Pulling and confirming reservations

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Last updated: May 30, 2016 by Yannick Blondeau
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The alternative way for the Hotel-Spider system to receive reservations from an online booking system is via the OTA_ReadRQ / OTA_ResRetrieveRS message pair followed by the OTA_NotifReportRQ / OTA_NotifReportRS message pair. Reservations / modifications / cancellations are polled / pulled by the Hotel-Spider system from the online booking system using the OTA_ReadRQ / OTA_ResRetrieveRS request and in a second communication, the Hotel-Spider system pushes the confirmation that the reservation / modification / cancellation has correctly been integrated via the OTA_NotifReportRQ / OTA_NotifReportRS request.

 

As this is an asynchronuous communication (meaning that the confirmation of a successfull transmission needs to be transmitted over a new request/response connection), the details of the two steps are detailed step by step: