Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins

[A Former User]

@orange

I've tried the woocomemrce licensing plugin that you recommend, it is a great plugin and the specific solution for me exactly. I'll go with this.

And also I've just tested your License Manager app, it works great. Fantastic job congrats.

Can you use the same license activation system in your plugins too, just like in the License Manager app?

[orange]

@harris-rosendahl said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

@orange

I've tried the woocomemrce licensing plugin that you recommend, it is a great plugin and the specific solution for me exactly. I'll go with this.

And also I've just tested your License Manager app, it works great. Fantastic job congrats.

Can you use the same license activation system in your plugins too, just like in the License Manager app?

Thanks. Yes of course, the same Hise server API system is used in the plugins too. Connecting to the servers, activating/deactivating the products with the device id, add license...etc. features are the same.

Only difference is standalone License Manager app is more flexible than the plugin for license management process; because standalone app handles all of the product licenses in one place, and also deactivates multiple computers.

Because of the GUI limitation, in the plugin, user will activate/deactivate only for the dedicated product and computer. I think in the plugin GUI, deactivating "Product B" in "Product A" does not makes sense. License Manager standalone app stands for this purpose.

[A Former User]

@orange

@orange said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

Yes of course, the same Hise server API system is used in the plugins too. Connecting to the servers, activating/deactivating the products with the device id, add license...etc. features are the same.

Ok. I made a quick tester plugin with this Woo commerce license manager plugin and jwt auth that you suggested, it works great! I was lost before but not found the right thing.

I will definitely go with this way, it is the all in one solution for a plugin developer. Thank you so much for this useful information

[Matt_SF]

I'm on my first steps of communicating with my server to setup an authorization system, and currently I'm just testing the server functions in HISE by calling for the auth token.

JWT in installed and everything is (supposed to be) set up correctly on my server.

I'm able to receive the token by making a POST request here :
"/wp-json/jwt-auth/v1/token"

But i'm getting an error when testing the token here :
"/wp-json/jwt-auth/v1/token/validate"

Everything is working fine when testing the procedure with Postman.

The thing is, if I setup the http header with the token string, it works : Server.setHttpHeader("Authorization: Bearer " + "token.TypedManuallyAsA.String"); I'm getting a 200 response, but
if I setup the http header with Server.setHttpHeader("Authorization: Bearer " + text);, I end up with a "Authorization header malformed".

I checked this thread where @d-healey 's
mentionned having header problems but I changed the htacces and the wp-config.php accordingly to the JWT docs so it's supposed to be ok on this side.

If someone has any clue about what's going on :)

[d.healey]

@matt_sf I use

Server.setHttpHeader("Authorization: Bearer " + token);

Console.print() your text variable to make sure it contains what you think it does.

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey here's a snippet, the "text" variable contains only the token as a string.
If I use a the token as a string I get a "Wrong number of segments" error.
If I use the token as an object I get a "Signature verification failed" error...

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Also a weird thing : when I get the token then ask for validation and get a header error, if I start again from the beginning, I don't receive the token and get a 403 error... I don't know if it's supposed to happend serverwise...

[d.healey]

@matt_sf I'm getting 403 when clicking btnSend

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey ... sorry it was a generic snippet, here I put some test credentials :

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[d.healey]

@matt_sf Mystery solved. Look in your info.txt file, see those quotation marks? They're not part of your token are they :)

Try

local text = info.loadAsString().replace('""');

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey aaaarrh, I sensed they might be the cause of the error, I tried to use .replace but didn't write it correctly.
Thanks a lot David, as always you're here to save the day

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey I tried it this morning but no luck, the .replace function didn't work, I still ended up with the quotation marks...
But I tried different things and ended up writing the whole response object (not just the token) to a file and load it as an object.value and it finally worked.

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Edit : I tried just this little bit of code and the .replace function doesn't work as expected...? :

const text = '"text"';

Console.print(text.replace('""'));

Console prints : "text"

[ulrik]

@matt_sf

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[d.healey]

@matt_sf Console always shows quotation marks for strings. I tested the code before I suggested it to you with your snippet and it worked for me.

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey @ustk oh that's odd.

@matt_sf said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

const text = '"text"';

Console.print(text.replace('""'));

Ok in this example I put the "string" inside the simple quotes ' so that was my mistake.

But If I use a txtFile.txt containing "Some text" (with the double quotes like I get when writing the response.tokeninto a file) and use this code:

const desktop = FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.Desktop);
const textFile = desktop.getChildFile("txtFile.txt");

const test = "test";

Console.print(test.replace('""'));
Console.print(textFile.loadAsString().replace('""'));

It doesn't work. The console output correctly testbut outputs "Some text"...

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The other answer would be that I'm totally losing It (which wouldn't be impossible) :face_with_tears_of_joy:

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

I tested the code before I suggested it to you with your snippet and it worked for me.

I thought so, that's why I was surprised it didn't work here....

[orange]

@matt_sf

Try below snippet. By the way, why are you using replace? For removing spaces? If yes, you should use it like this: textFile.loadAsString().replace(" ", "")

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[d.healey]

@orange said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

For removing spaces?

No, we're removing quotation marks ""

[orange]

@d-healey said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

No, we're removing quotation marks ""

Why? I think there is no need to do that?

[d.healey]

@orange When the token is written to the text file it adds quotation marks. These need to be removed before being added to the header.

[orange]

@d-healey Then substring can work here. This will extract the string between first and last chars.

exampleString.substring(1, exampleString.length-1);