Fix handling of booleans that are actually strings

Closes gh-40686

.github/actions/build/action.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ inputs:
 outputs:
   build-scan-url:
     description: 'The URL, if any, of the build scan produced by the build'
-    value: ${{ (inputs.publish && steps.build-and-publish.outputs.build-scan-url) || steps.build.outputs.build-scan-url }}
+    value: ${{ (inputs.publish == 'true' && steps.build-and-publish.outputs.build-scan-url) || steps.build.outputs.build-scan-url }}
   version:
     description: 'The version that was built'
     value: ${{ steps.read-version.outputs.version }}
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@ runs:
         java-toolchain: ${{ inputs.java-toolchain }}
     - name: Build
       id: build
-      if: ${{ !inputs.publish }}
+      if: ${{ inputs.publish == 'false' }}
       shell: bash
       env:
         DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ inputs.develocity-access-key }}
       run: ./gradlew build
     - name: Build and Publish
       id: build-and-publish
-      if: ${{ inputs.publish }}
+      if: ${{ inputs.publish == 'true' }}
       shell: bash
       env:
         DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ inputs.develocity-access-key }}

.github/actions/prepare-gradle-build/action.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ runs:
         distribution: 'liberica'
         java-version: |
           ${{ inputs.java-version }}
-          ${{ inputs.java-toolchain && '17' || '' }}
+          ${{ inputs.java-toolchain == 'true' && '17' || '' }}
     - name: Set Up Gradle
       uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@db19848a5fa7950289d3668fb053140cf3028d43 # v3.3.2
       with:
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ runs:
         echo 'systemProp.org.gradle.internal.launcher.welcomeMessageEnabled=false' >> $HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties
         echo 'org.gradle.daemon=false' >> $HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties
     - name: Configure Toolchain Properties
-      if: ${{ inputs.java-toolchain }}
+      if: ${{ inputs.java-toolchain == 'true' }}
       shell: bash
       run: |
         echo toolchainVersion=${{ inputs.java-version }} >> $HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties

.github/actions/publish-to-sdkman/action.yml

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ runs:
           -d '{"candidate": "springboot", "version": "${{ inputs.spring-boot-version }}", "url": "${{ format('https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-cli/{0}/spring-boot-cli-{0}-bin.zip', inputs.spring-boot-version) }}"}' \
           https://vendors.sdkman.io/release
     - shell: bash
-      if: ${{ inputs.make-default }}
+      if: ${{ inputs.make-default == 'true' }}
       run: >
         curl -X POST \
           -H "Consumer-Key: ${{ inputs.sdkman-consumer-key }}" \