Using LexActivator with Python

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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 that is used by LexActivator. The product id is the identifier of your product that is to be used in the code.
Adding the 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​
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.
In case your app doesn't have write access to the disk, you can use PermissionFlags.LA_IN_MEMORY flag instead, which causes all the data to be stored in the memory. But this would require you to activate the license every time you restart the app.
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 with 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.
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Adding licensing to your app
Adding the library to your app
Setting product.dat file and product Id
License activation
Verifying license activation
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