Instantsearch.js: Availability feature

[jaarkko]

This is a feature request.

Has anyone thought of implementing an Availability feature in Algolia somehow. Lets say if your "room" was booked next week, and I add a search time, I would filter that room out.

Any thoughts or ideas how something like this could be done? My mind is going to an parse-able availability string, and then some sort of custom ranking.

Thanks!

[Haroenv]

You could have a record structure like this:

{
  "available": [
    { "from": 123123, "to": 123124 },
    { "from": 123125, "to": 123126 }
  ]
}

Then you can use the filters attribute (not in instantsearch.js, but in the js client) to filter based on a period between those.

This is obviously a quite complicated feature, so we might want to implement this in instantsearch if there's a lot of request for it.

Let me know if you need more than an overview

[jaarkko]

Awesome @Haroenv.

Could you show me a rough logic example of that filter query based on something similar?

As my time would be from-to and comparing that with algolia might be difficult.

{
  "not-available": [
    { "from": 123123, "to": 123124 },
    { "from": 123125, "to": 123126 }
  ]
}

my request "are you not available"
from: 123127 to 123129

[Haroenv]

oh you're right @jaarkko, it's more complicated than it first seemed, I'd need to sync with someone on this.

[bobylito]

This is more on the engine side that this could be solved, and it's not high in the list. There is a way but it requires to compute combinations of possible bookings as different records, this could have a huge impact on the number of records in your index.

I have forwarded your feedback though :)

[jaarkko]

Just popping up and asking if anyone has any ideas on this, ping here. Would help a lot of people!

[bobylito]

@jaarkko Can you go through support to ask about that? There are some solutions but there are no one-size-fits-all kinda solution. If you go through support and mention that you want to implement a booking search then we can start talking about a solution tailored for your use case.