Adding licensing to your app

After you've added a product for your app in the dashboard, go to the product page of the product you will be adding licensing to. You will need to do three things:

• Note the product id for the product.

• Download the Product.dat for the product.

• Download the example project from Github​

Product.dat contains product data which is used by LexActivator. Product id is the identifier of your product which is to be used in the code.

Adding library to your app

LexActivator wrapper for Python can be easily installed through pip:

pip install cryptlex.lexactivator

LexActivator has a dependency on VS2015 runtime on Windows. On the target machines where you will deploy your app, you can install the VS2015 runtime, if not present, using the link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=48145​

LexActivator has a dependency on libnss3 library on Linux. On the target machines where you will deploy your app, ensure libnss3 library is installed.

Setting product.dat file and product Id

The first thing you need to do is either embed the Product.dat file in your app using SetProductData() function or set the absolute path of the file using SetProductFile() function.

The next thing you need to do is to set the product id of your application in your code using SetProductId() function. It sets the id of the product you will be adding licensing to.

LexActivator.SetProductData("PASTE_CONTENT_OF_PRODUCT.DAT_FILE");
LexActivator.SetProductId("PASTE_PRODUCT_ID", PermissionFlags.LA_USER);

If your app requires admin (root) privileges to run (e.g. services, daemons etc.), instead of passing PermissionFlags.LA_USER flag, you need to pass PermissionFlags.LA_SYSTEM flag.

License activation

To activate the license in your app using the license key, you will use ActivateLicense() LexActivator API function. It invokes the /v3/activations Cryptlex Web API endpoint, verifies the encrypted and digitally signed response to validate the license.

def activate():
    try:
        LexActivator.SetLicenseKey("PASTE_LICENCE_KEY")
        LexActivator.SetActivationMetadata("key1", "value1")
        status = LexActivator.ActivateLicense()
        if LexStatusCodes.LA_OK == status or LexStatusCodes.LA_EXPIRED == status or LexStatusCodes.LA_SUSPENDED == status:
            print("License activated successfully: ", status)
        else:
            print("License activation failed: ", status)
    except LexActivatorException as exception:
        print('Error code:', exception.code, exception.message)

The above code should be executed at the time of license activation.

Verifying license activation

Each time, your app starts, you need to verify whether your license is already activated or not. This verification should occur locally by verifying the cryptographic digital signature of activation. Ideally, it should also asynchronously contact Cryptlex servers to validate and sync the license activation periodically. For this you need to use IsLicenseGenuine() LexActivator API function.

def main():
    try:
        LexActivator.SetProductData("PASTE_CONTENT_OF_PRODUCT.DAT_FILE")
        LexActivator.SetProductId("PASTE_PRODUCT_ID", PermissionFlags.LA_USER)
        status = LexActivator.IsLicenseGenuine()
        if LexStatusCodes.LA_OK == status:
            print("License is genuinely activated!")
        elif LexStatusCodes.LA_EXPIRED == status:
            print("License is genuinely activated but has expired!")
        elif LexStatusCodes.LA_SUSPENDED == status:
            print("License is genuinely activated but has been suspended!")
        elif LexStatusCodes.LA_GRACE_PERIOD_OVER == status:
            print("License is genuinely activated but grace period is over!")
        else:
            print("License is not activated: ", status)
    except LexActivatorException as exception:
        print('Error code:', exception.code, exception.message)

The above code should be executed every time user starts the app. After verifying locally, it schedules a periodic server check in a separate thread.

Need more help

In case you need more help for adding LexActivator to your app, we'll be glad to help you make the integration. You can either post your questions on our support forum or can contact us through email.