Boolean Params in Jenkins

I modified an existing job in Jenkins to use a boolean flag, so I could check it if I wanted to disable the Maven tests. To do so, you define a property:

mvn -Dmaven.skip.tests=true goal goal...

So for the boolean config I set the name to maven.skip.tests and put in the Maven command config:
-Dmaven.skip.tests=${maven.skip.tests}

After running, blam! Pages of
[DEBUG] (f) session = org.apache.maven.execution.MavenSession@f372724
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchStandard(Launcher.java:329)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:239)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main.launch(Maven3Main.java:158)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:100)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:66)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
at org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator.stripTokens(PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator.java:408)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator.evaluate(PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator.java:113)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator.evaluate(PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator.java:100)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator.evaluate(PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator.java:385)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator.evaluate(PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator.java:100)

Increase memory to -Xmx1024m. Same. Downloaded the source. Problem with recursive calls to a parse, using int exprStartDelimiter = val.indexOf( "${" );. Hmm. Some params on the build are bad?

Running in debug, I copied the command string into a shell. -bash: -Dmaven.test.skip=${maven.test.skip}: bad substitution
Hmm. I was not getting a value, just a unfilled placeholder.

mvn resources:testResources ran fine.

Little Googling. The param is $X, not ${x}. Aargh!

Now it works. On to the next problem.

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