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Can Optaplanner manage various components needed for a reservation?

The project I am working on has multiple components of differing types. A user makes a reservation, and our Spring Boot server has to figure out when the components requested by the user will be available over the next 30 days (intervals of 1 minute).

If the server has to check that a bunch of components are available at a certain time, can Optaplanner pick out all the components for this one reservation ?

I'm kind of confused because the website briefly shows an "Equipment Scheduling" picture at the beginning of the documentation, but then I don't see any sort of thorough example relating specifically to equipment scheduling.

Solution

  • The biggest challenge for OptaPlanner newcomers is to create a good model for their planning problem, especially if there is no example near it. Some tips:

    1. Read the "domain modeling guide" in the docs (or see this video about it).

    2. Take a look at the cheaptime example in optaplanner-examples (not optaplanner-quickstarts). That sounds a bit similar to this problem.