Originally posted by Gerald Davis:
Dudes , I cannot help much but I can give you more ideas to throw into the equation.
When customer enters flight info and system responds ,we cannot assume that system uses a remote network call, it might use a local call or a semi remote call. In the case study it did not say anything about a system being a server system.
There could be commercial reasons why the price does not show up on when system returns flight on first network call-does listing prices make the site look cheap? In some expensive department stories in London if you ask he price of a smart jacket before buying , you probably cannot afford it anyway.
With so many other clients using the system, could there be a concurrent reason why the flight-pricing model is the way it is. There are issues like flight availability and what happens if there are no seats available and how this can affect profits. Maybe prices of the flights can change ( like due to inflation or interest rates or something) and this flight pricing model can handle it more elegantly. What happens when prices go up while a client are booking a flight.
I might be able to answer some of these questions, ja ,but it will take so much time because I am not most smartest road sweeper on the block.
When customer enters flight info and system responds ,we cannot assume that system uses a remote network call, it might use a local call or a semi remote call. In the case study it did not say anything about a system being a server system.
There could be commercial reasons why the price does not show up on when system returns flight on first network call-does listing prices make the site look cheap?
Maybe prices of the flights can change ( like due to inflation or interest rates or something) and this flight pricing model can handle it more elegantly. What happens when prices go up while a client are booking a flight.
And if the pricing model was sensitive to external factors, then, yeah, the prices should be only shown when the user selects the flight. I think the system can be made smarter and for meeting the current requirements, the prices can be retrieved during the flight search, though, it can be shown after the flight selection.
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