Lesson 4: Design Hotel Flow

Now we've learnt about Picoflow essence and basics. Let's Recap how to work with Picoflow:

Design hotel reservation bot

We use the experience of reserving a Hotel room on hilton.com to begin with.

The following information are collected from a user.

1. Place
2. Date of travel
3. Minimum and maximum budget per night
4. Room type
5. Room amenities
6. Distance from airport
7. Distance from city center

Hotel search

• Once all the information are collected, the bot will do a search on all available hotels that meet the requirements.
• A user can change information that has been previously captured

In order to simulate realistic search,

• We collect 32 Hilton hotels in Portland Oregon and SouthWest Washington areas. Example:

{
    "id": "368dedd8-8bd8-4a02-bffa-a46a66e58337",
    "_ts": 1762557263,
    "_rid": "AQAAAAEAAAAAAAAZpgmX3DAAD6E=",
    "name": "The Porter Portland, Curio Collection by Hilton",
    "_etag": "5aa8601a-a7e8-4e57-94fa-304729c5a0f3",
    "_self": "dbs/picoflow/colls/hotels/docs/368dedd8-8bd8-4a02-bffa-a46a66e58337/",
    "level": 120,
    "nearby": {
        "airport": 12.4,
        "cityCenter": 0.5
    },
    "address": "1355 SW 2nd Ave. Portland, Oregon 97201 USA",
    "roomType": [
        "one bed",
        "two beds",
        "suite"
    ],
    "amenities": {
        "boutique": true,
        "freeWiFi": true,
        "digitalKey": true,
        "indoorPool": true,
        "nonSmoking": true,
        "petFriendly": true,
        "roomService": true,
        "fitnessCenter": true,
        "businessCenter": true,
        "onSiteRestaurant": true
    }
}

• The hotel attributes were obtained from hilton.com website.
• We devise a simulated pricing engine to account for room types, amenities, original base price, weekdays vs weekends vs Holidays travels, distance from airport and distance from city center.

Hotel comparison

• once a list of Hotels are presented to a user, allow a user to compare pricing, amenities and other attributes across the date range.
• allow a user to exit the comparison loop and book a hotel.

Demo

The entirety of this tutorial can be demonstrated in a recorded demo

Github

The code for this tutorial is available on Github

Document DB setup

In order to run this project, you need to decide to use a MongoDB or a CosmoDB. Both have support locally or in the Cloud.

Create 2 collections for your document DB:

hotels
sessions

Upload a hotel database to the collection hotels

hotels-cosmo.json (for Cosmo) 
hotels-mongo.json (for Mongo)

These two json files are under src/myflow/hotel-flow/data

Endpoints

You can go to http://localhost:8000/api#/ai/ChatController_run

Each turn, you want to take the CHAT_SESSION_ID from the response header and use that in the request header for next turn.

Leave CHAT_SESSION_ID blank when you make the first call. A new session and ID will be created and returned.

Wrapping up