(Feature): Add ability to pass in additional-properties in Web5 CLI to `web5 vc create`

[blackgirlbytes]

🚀 Goal

Enhance the web5 vc create command to allow users to pass in additional properties when creating a Verifiable Credential.

🔑 Tasks

• [ ] Modify the web5 vc create command to accept additional properties Example below:

  web5 vc create rizel \
  --portable-did $PORTABLE_DID \
  --issuer "did:dht:pe45oj88hq9zza3cjd41r5rej9ekfg9bq7k4jjeaw889t78jesko" \
  --expiration-date "2025-12-31T23:59:59Z" \
  --additional-property "role:engineer" \
  --additional-property "clearance:level5"

• [ ] Determine the best format for passing additional properties (e.g., JSON string, key-value pairs)
• [ ] Implement the logic to incorporate these additional properties into the created VC
• [ ] Add appropriate error handling for invalid additional properties
• [ ] Update the CLI documentation to explain how to use this new feature
• [ ] Add examples demonstrating the use of additional properties
• [ ] Write tests to ensure the feature works as expected

🌟 Resources

• Current Web5 Rust CLI Documentation
• Web5 documentation on Creating VC
• Verifiable Credentials Data Model
• Web5 CLI built in Go for reference

Getting Started

1. Comment ".take" on this issue to get assigned
2. Fork the repository and create a new branch for this task
3. Implement the feature as described in the tasks
4. Submit a pull request with your changes
5. Respond to any feedback during the review process

💭 Questions?

If you have any questions or need clarification, please comment on this issue or join our Discord community. Happy coding! 🎉

[aruokhai]

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[aruokhai]

For the First task, i thought about the first approach but it seams to requires lots of typing which increases the chances for errors. Nevertheless, its ease of use is much appreciated when compared to a config file, which has a requirement of passing a correct file path, but can improve the speed of passing lots of additional parameters.

Therefore i have settled on an approach that makes use of the best of both worlds:

web5 vc create rizel \
  --portable-did $PORTABLE_DID \
  --issuer "did:dht:pe45oj88hq9zza3cjd41r5rej9ekfg9bq7k4jjeaw889t78jesko" \
  --expiration-date "2025-12-31T23:59:59Z" \
  --x-role "engineer" \
  --x-clearance "level5"
  --x "./path-to-env"

Precedence: Key-Value > Env File

[blackgirlbytes]

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[taniashiba]

Hi @aruokhai - wanted to check back and see if you had any questions or needed help ❤

[w3irdrobot]

i can pick it up if @aruokhai is unable to complete it.

[blackgirlbytes]

I'll reassign it to you since I know you just worked on the presentation definition part of the web5 cli so you may be familiar with this. @w3irdrobot

@aruokhai I can help you find more related issues if you're interested!