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read_resource: a Collection's list body is not an empty resource (#335)

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`_raw_read_blocking` decoded the CBOR body and kept it only when it was a
Property map, so a Collection -- which answers the `[devcol rep, {href,
rep}, ...]` batch `parse_device0_batch` reads -- came back as `2.05` with
`rep: {}`. That renders as "the resource exists and has nothing in it",
which is the opposite of what a populated batch means, and `/device/0`
itself would have read the same way.

It cost a real result: issue #335's board answers `/sec/devices` (the
`x.com.samsung.devcol` sibling of `/device/0`, and the one remaining place
a composite appliance could be enumerating its indoor units) with exactly
that empty-looking 2.05, and it was nearly written off as a dead end.

The read path now returns the decoded body alongside `rep`, and the service
response carries it as `body` whenever it isn't the map `rep` already has --
omitted for the ordinary case rather than duplicating every rep in every
response. Records the probe round this came out of: indexed leaves 4.04 on
that board, and the UUID prefix confirmed routable by a positive control, so
Patterns A/B/C are ruled out there on evidence rather than on absence.
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href: /mode/vs/0
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returning `{"href", "actual_href", "code", "raw_code", "rep"}` off a **live GET straight from the device**, not the cache — which can be up to a poll interval stale, exactly the staleness that would make `held` above meaningless. Omit `href` and you get `{"resources": {href: rep, ...}}`, the cached snapshot of everything this integration currently tracks on that device, with no GET at all — useful for seeing what's there before you start writing to it, without hammering the appliance.
returning `{"href", "actual_href", "code", "raw_code", "rep"}` off a **live GET straight from the device**, not the cache — which can be up to a poll interval stale, exactly the staleness that would make `held` above meaningless. A sixth key, `body`, appears only when the response isn't a Property map: a Collection (`/device/0`, and the `x.com.samsung.devcol` siblings some boards expose) answers a CBOR list, which `rep` can't carry, and which would otherwise read as an accepted-but-empty resource. Omit `href` and you get `{"resources": {href: rep, ...}}`, the cached snapshot of everything this integration currently tracks on that device, with no GET at all — useful for seeing what's there before you start writing to it, without hammering the appliance.
The **Debug write** panel under a device's Configure menu (Part 4) is the friendlier single-write path over this same machinery — pick an href, type a payload, see the result — for when you don't need a sequence.