Support multiple subjects in a Verifiable Credential #33
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Implementing #32, this change adds support for an array of subjects in the
credentialSubject
field of a Verifiable Credential to improve conformance with the Verifiable Credential Data Model v1.1, Section 4.4.Behavior is maintained for credentials with a single subject object.
Implementation
Because the
credentialSubject
field may be an object or an array, I've added support for a list of credential subjects that is populated with however many subjects are in the credential.If there is a single subject, the new
VerifiableCredential::getCredentialSubjects()
will return an array of size 1. The subject in the array will match the subject returned byVerifiableCredential::getCredentialSubject()
.If there are multiple subjects, the new
VerifiableCredential::getCredentialSubjects()
will return an array with all the subjects in the same order as the source JSON-LD. The first subject will be returned byVerifiableCredential::getCredentialSubject()
.Note that conversion to a JWT is unsupported for a credential with multiple subjects, as indicated by the Verifiable Credential Data Model v1.1, Section 6.3.1, heading JWT Encoding.
I've added unit tests for verifying, signing, and verifiable presentations for credentials with multiple subjects.