Activation reclaim (Mac)

You can manage existing and previous activations for a license through the SDK, letting you deactivate older activations if the license being used has run out of available activations.

Get Activations

You can get a list of existing activations using the activationsForLicense method available on PADProduct.

This method optionally accepts a license code if the product isn’t activated. If the product is already activated, it uses the currently activated license code. You can still pass in a different license code, if needed.

For example:

[product activationsForLicense:@"D97...3F37" completion:^(NSArray * _Nullable activations, NSError * _Nullable error) {
            NSLog(@"+++++++++ACTIVATIONS+++++++++++");
            NSLog(@"%@", activations);
        }];

product.activations(forLicense: "D97...3F37") { activations, error in
            print(activations)
        }

This will provide you with a list of activations for that license code and product:

{

        activated = "2022-06-01 12:23:42 +0000";
        "activation_id" = 4...5;
        uuid = "00:00:00:00";
}

You can choose to display the list of activations to your customer or, for example, choose the oldest activation from the list to deactivate.

Deactivating an Activation

Once you have a list of activations, you can use the deactivateActivation method to deactivate one or all the activations.

This method accepts an activation_id from the previous response. If this activation is the current activation on the machine, deactivation still takes place with the usual callbacks and delegate methods.

For example:

[product deactivateActivation:activationId license:@"D9...F37" completion:^(BOOL deactivated, NSError * _Nullable error) {
                if (deactivated) {
                    NSLog(@"License Deactivated");
                }
 }];

product.deactivateActivation(activationId, license: "D9...F37") { deactivated, error in
                    if deactivated {
                        print("License Deactivated")
                    }
                }

Deactivate Oldest Activation Example

In this example, we get a list of activations and instantly deactivate the oldest activation in the list to free up a new activation.

We supply the license code because we assume the customer can’t activate because there’s no available activations for the license.

[product activationsForLicense:@"D9...F37" completion:^(NSArray * _Nullable activations, NSError * _Nullable error) {
            NSString *firstActivationId = [[activations firstObject] valueForKey:@"activation_id"];
            [product deactivateActivation:firstActivationId license:@"D9...F37" completion:^(BOOL deactivated, NSError * _Nullable error) {
                if (deactivated) {
                    NSLog(@"License Deactivated - Try activating again");
                }
            }];
        }];

product.activations(forLicense: "D9...F37") { activations, error in
            let activationsList = activations as? [[String:Any]]

            if let oldestActivation = activationsList?.first {
                product.deactivateActivation(oldestActivation["activation_id"] as! String, license: "D9...F37") { deactivated, error in
                    if deactivated {
                        print("License Deactivated - Try activating again")
                    }
                }
            }
        }