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Developer Releases Laravel Package Unifying Disney, SeaWorld and Universal Booking APIs

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A developer has open-sourced a Laravel package called laravel-themepark-booking-adapters that provides unified API adapters for Disney, SeaWorld, and Universal Orlando ticket booking. Disney and SeaWorld are accessed via the Redeam distributor platform, while Universal uses its own OAuth2 system called SmartOrder. The package was extracted from two years of private client code maintained inside a Laravel storefront, where every bug fix had to be applied three times across separate integrations. It returns typed data transfer objects and handles authentication, retries, and OAuth tokens, while leaving business logic such as queues, margins, and voucher generation to the consuming application. Key design choices include capability-based interfaces to avoid unsupported method errors and a strict separation between retryable read requests and non-retryable write operations to prevent duplicate bookings.

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