Possible little documentation improvement in LWM2M Software Management (object 9) about lwm2m-registry HOT 2 OPEN

@sbernard31 OMA's specification clarifies that a boolean is an unsigned 8 bit integer with 0 = false and 1 = true

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@mkgillmore, I guess you refer to LWM2M-v1.2.1@core§Appendix C. Data Types (Normative)

I totally missed to look at this.

In the same time, when I read :

Boolean : An 8 bit unsigned integer with the value 0 for False and the value 1 for True.

It seems to me this is kind of mistake to define this here. I mean a boolean is just 2 state true/false.
A 8 bit unsigned integer is either a way to store it (implementation concerns) OR a way encode it (content format concerns).
For string or number it makes senses to clearly define the "kind" of string/numbers supported but for boolean this is just true false.
By the way, we see in LWM2M-v1.2.1@core§Table: C.-2 Data Type Mapping, there is different way to encode boolean (which totally makes sense)

Anyway, I still think that documentation would be clearer with false:DISABLED / true:ENABLED but I agree this is not a big deal too.

If you think my remarks makes sense feel free to take it into account.
If you think this does not deserve to change it, I can understand.
I reported it just in case 🙂

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