Viewing the fare products of a mobility service (Node.js)
In this use case, the user views the various fare products a mobility service provider offers. Fare products are various offerings on a particular service like "Monthly Pass", "Single Journey Adult Ticket", "Return Ticket", "Day Pass" etc. These fare products are usually represented as items of a mobility service catalog. Other examples include products like "Uber Go", "Uber X" etc
Code snippets
Client calls the BAP server to trigger search:
router.post("/mobility/search_by_drop_location", searchLoc);
async function searchLoc({ body }, res) {
try {
// .. Validate the client request here
await generateSearchRequest(body)
} catch (error) {
res.status(500).send(httpResponse("NACK", error));
}
};
BAP server generates the protocol request body
// Code to generate the protocol request body i.e. function generateSearchRequest() specified above
async function generateSearchRequest(clientRequestBody) {
/*
Example Request JSON :
{
"context": {
"domain": "nic2004:60221",
"country": "IND",
"city": "std:080",
"action": "search",
"core_version": "0.9.1",
"bap_id": "https://mock_bap.com/",
"bap_uri": "https://mock_bap.com/beckn/",
"transaction_id": "1209849124",
"message_id": "12341242342",
"timestamp": "2021-03-23T10:00:40.065Z"
},
"message": {
"intent" : {
"fulfillment": {
"start" : {
"location" : {
"gps" : "12.9349377,77.6055586"
}
},
"end" : {
"location" : {
"gps" : "12.4535445,77.9283792"
}
}
}
}
}
}
*/
//The below code generates the above example JSON.
const transactionId = _.get(body, "transactionId");
// Returns the Context including MessageId
const context = createContext(transactionId);
const searchRequestBody = {
context,
message: {
intent: {
fulfillment: {
// Construct from the request
},
}
}
};
//call protocol search
const response = await callSearch(searchRequestBody);
res
.status(200)
.send({ ...response.data, messageId: context["message_id"] });
}
BAP server calls protocol search to the network
async function callSearch(searchRequestBody) {
// It lookups the registry for BG OR BPP
let uri = lookup();
// Construct Header
const headers = constructAuthHeader(); // Auth Header with digital Signature
return axios({ url: `${uri}/mobility/search`, method: "POST", data: request, headers});
}
BAP receives protocol on_search
/*
Example Response JSON:
{
"context": {
"domain": "nic2004:60221",
"country": "IND",
"city": "std:080",
"action": "on_search",
"core_version": "0.9.1",
"bap_id": "https://mock_bap.com/",
"bap_uri": "https://mock_bap.com/beckn/",
"bpp_id": "https://mock_bpp.com/",
"bpp_uri": "https://mock_bpp.com/beckn/",
"transaction_id": "1209849124",
"message_id": "12341242343",
"timestamp": "2021-03-23T10:00:40.065Z"
},
"message": {
"catalog": {
"bpp/descriptor": {
"name": "Mock BPP"
},
"bpp/providers": [
{
"id": "metro-one",
"descriptor" : {
"name": "Metro One"
},
"categories": [
{
"id": "monthly",
"descriptor": {
"name": "Monthly Pass"
}
},
{
"id": "day",
"descriptor": {
"name": "Day Pass"
}
}
],
"items": [
{
"id": "monthly_one_way",
"descriptor" : {
"name" : "One way monthly pass",
"images" : [
"https://mock_bpp.com/images/m1.jpg"
]
},
"category_id": "monthly",
"price" : {
"currency": "INR",
"value": "500"
},
"time": {
"range": {
"start": "2021-08-17T05:22:34.861Z",
"end": "2021-09-17T05:22:34.861Z"
}
},
"matched": true
},
{
"id": "monthly_two_way",
"descriptor" : {
"name" : "Two way monthly pass",
"images" : [
"https://mock_bpp.com/images/m2.jpg"
]
},
"category_id": "monthly",
"price" : {
"currency": "INR",
"value": "1000"
},
"time": {
"range": {
"start": "2021-08-17T05:22:34.861Z",
"end": "2021-09-17T05:22:34.861Z"
}
},
"matched": true
},
{
"id": "unlimited_day",
"descriptor" : {
"name" : "Unlimited Day Pass",
"images" : [
"https://mock_bpp.com/images/du.jpg"
]
},
"category_id": "day",
"price" : {
"currency": "INR",
"value": "200"
},
"time": {
"range": {
"start": "2021-08-17T05:22:34.861Z",
"end": "2021-08-18T05:22:34.861Z"
}
},
"matched": true
},
{
"id": "day_two_way",
"descriptor" : {
"name" : "Two way day pass",
"images" : [
"https://mock_bpp.com/images/d2.jpg"
]
},
"category_id": "day",
"price" : {
"currency": "INR",
"value": "50"
},
"time": {
"range": {
"start": "2021-08-17T05:22:34.861Z",
"end": "2021-08-18T05:22:34.861Z"
}
},
"matched": true
}
]
}
]
}
}
}
*/
// Auth middleware authenticates the digital signature of the incoming request
router.post("/mobility/on_search", auth, onSearch);
async function onSearch({ body }, res) {
// Save the response to Database
await saveToDb(body);
};
Client polls BAP to get the on_search results
// Endpoint for the client to poll the search data based on the message id
async function getMessageById(req) {
try {
const messageId = _.get(req, "messageId");
// Get the data using message Id
const response = await getData(messageId);
res.status(200).send(httpResponse('ACK', "", response));
} catch(error) {
res.status(500).send(httpResponse("NACK", error));
}
};