How to save toggle value to form data as boolean

Questions
1

I have a settings page and would like to have the toggle state saved into the form data local storage as a boolean instead of ["on"], this would be more useful when retrieving the data.

<form class="list form-store-data" id="settings">
  <ul>
    <li>
      <label class="toggle toggle-init color-blue" @change="enableLocation">
        <input type="checkbox" name="location" value="on"><i class="toggle-icon"></i>
      </label>
    </li>
  </ul>
</form>

Is this possible? At the moment I’m having to do this every time I want access to it to get it into a useful form :

var val = settings.location[0]=='on';
2

Nope, not possible. It works under some kind of convention about form serialization. Checkbox supposed to be an array, because you may have few checkboxes with same name and different values