Trying to use the communition edition but bamboolib is prompting for a license

[paulhybryant]

Environment

• Operating System: Debian Buster
• Python Version: $ python --version 3.8.12
• How did you install bamboolib: (pip, conda, or other (please explain)) pip install bamboolib (as root in a docker image)
• Python packages: $ pip list or $ conda list (please include bamboolib)
  bamboolib 1.29.1
• If bamboolib is used with JupyterLab: JupyterLab extensions: jupyter labextension list
  JupyterLab v3.2.7
  /opt/conda/envs/quant/share/jupyter/labextensions
  @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager v3.0.1 enabled OK (python, jupyterlab_widgets)

Other labextensions (built into JupyterLab)
app dir: /opt/conda/envs/quant/share/jupyter/lab
bamboolib v1.29.0 enabled OK
ipyslickgrid v0.0.3 enabled OK
jupyterlab-plotly v4.14.3 enabled OK
plotlywidget v4.14.3 enabled OK

• If bamboolib is used with Jupyter Notebook: Notebook extension: jupyter nbextension list

Description of Issue

• What did you expect to happen?
  Click show bamboolib UI and see the UI
• What happened instead?
  Prompt for pro license

Reproduction Steps

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What steps have you taken to resolve this already?

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Anything else?

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[priamai]

Same problem here:

where should I get the community licence?
I follow the website but it goes nowhere.

[FlorianWetschoreck]

Please note the constraints of the Community Edition:

• Works for Jupyter Notebook or Jupyter Lab on your local computer or on Binder

What do you think?

[priamai]

Negative, I am running the library in my own workstation in my local network.

[fwetdb]

Please note that bamboolib is not publicly supported any more beyond usage of Databricks notebooks.
Having said that, I am willing to have a look if you can please share a quick video recording of your browser when the error occurs.

[paulhybryant]

This is what I do on my machine that can reproduce the issue (from scratch):

conda create -n bamboolib python==3.8
conda install notebook
pip install bamboolib
python -m bamboolib install_nbextensions
jupyter notebook

And when I access the port from a remote machine (use ip:8888), and view a normal dataframe, I got the activation page.

In a jupyter notebook cell:

import bamboolib as bam
# creating the dataframe
# df = ...
 df

run the cell

I am not sure if accessing using localhost:8888 will got the same error (it is a nas without monitor)

[fwetdb]

Thanks for the details, Paul.

I can confirm that the access from the remote machine is what's triggering the license prompt because this use case exceeds the scope of the Community edition (for now - although I do not promise any changes).

[paulhybryant]

Thanks for the reply Florian @fwetdb .

It would really be great if this can be allowed in the community edition. I am simply hosting this on my own machine so that I can access it anywhere instead of having to carry my laptop around.

Thanks!

[fwetdb]

Noted!

[fwetdb]

What other workaround options do you have?
e.g. using TeamViewer to access the other machine (which runs bamboolib inside the machine, OS, browser, etc) should work.

[paulhybryant]

Teamviewer would be an option, but it would require me to have a workstation at home, or keep my laptop always up at home.
Would reverse-proxying work? In theory I think it would but the setup is also tricky (I tried reverse-proxying jupyter notebook and ran into many issues)

[priamai]

Okay guys at this stage I am out 200% from this project.
All the best.

[fwetdb]

@paulhybryant The reverse proxy might work from a bamboolib standpoint if the browser URL will be localhost

[paulhybryant]

Thanks @fwetdb. Yeah, that is what I thought. However, making jupyter to work behind a reverse proxy is a bit troublesome. Would really appreciate it if I don't need to do this setup at all if possible since this localhost restriction can be bypassed by reverse proxy. Thanks!