formatting room group object

[EvanTedesco]

I have been trying to figure out how to format the number of rooms/ guests section using this gem for some time and simply cannot figure it out. The api docs say :

"Room format for REST The REST format compacts the values from the previous elements into a comma-delimited list. To declare a room and its occupants, use the following format:

&room[room number, starting with 1]= [number of adults], [comma-delimited list of children's ages]

For example, to declare that a room has one adult and two children ages 5 and 12, you would send &room1=1,5,12 . There is no separate declaration for the number of children - each age value is assumed to belong to a child."

I feel like I have tried every combination under the sun and I can't get a number of rooms to show up in my get request. Would it be possible to get an example of the format?

[zaidakram]

Forgive me if I'm not being able to understand your question. But to my understanding you are not being able to get any available room with get_availability method provided by the gem.

After setting the Auth Credentials of Exepdia app;

list_of_hotels = api.get_list({:propertyName => 'Hotel Moa Berlin', :destinationString => 'berlin'})

# 459433 is the id of the hotel searched above

avail_rooms =  api.get_availability({:hotelId => 359433, :SupplierType => 'E', :arrivalDate => '6/12/2015',
:departureDate => '6/15/2015', :room1 => '2,5,7', :includeDetails => 'true', :options => 'ROOM_AMENITIES,ROOM_TYPES', :minorRev => 24})

It gives me 3 different types of rooms available for 2 adults and 2 children of age 5 and 7.

One other thing could be, that there are no available rooms to reserve with the criteria you are mentioning.

[EvanTedesco]

Thank you for your detailed response. You definitely answered my question. I didn't know how the line :room1 => '2,5,7', should be formatted and I thought that was my problem but apparently it is something else. The example you gave works perfectly but for some reason I cannot get the availability for the one hotel I actually need the info for. I have the ID from the get_list method but I keep getting an error when I try to use the get_availability call. The code I am running is

get_availability({:hotelId => 193964, :SupplierType => 'W', :arrivalDate => '6/12/2015', :departureDate => '6/15/2015', :room1 => '2,5,7', :includeDetails => 'true', :options => 'ROOM_AMENITIES,ROOM_TYPES', :minorRev => 24})

and I have tried using a different supplier type as per the documentation. I realize my problem is likely outside of the scope of Github issues so I thank you for your time and for making this super cool gem and seek a resolution elsewhere. Again thank you!

[EvanTedesco]

I figured out my problem and I figured I would post the solution here in case it could be of value to anyone in the future. The hotel I was trying to get availability for does not accept reservations with children. Thanks again for everything!