Improve handling of <nil> Params

Fixes #8825

2 files changed, 32 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/hugolib/menu_test.go b/hugolib/menu_test.go
index a647c5bfa..796ac3beb 100644
--- a/hugolib/menu_test.go
+++ b/hugolib/menu_test.go
@@ -350,6 +350,25 @@ menu:
 	b.AssertFileContent("public/index.html", "A|Children:C|B|")
 }
 
+// Issue #8825
+func TestMenuParamsEmptyYaml(t *testing.T) {
+	b := newTestSitesBuilder(t).WithConfigFile("yaml", `
+
+`)
+
+	b.WithTemplates("index.html", `{{ site.Menus }}`)
+
+	b.WithContent("p1.md", `---
+menus:
+  main: 
+    identity: journal
+    weight: 2
+    params:
+---	
+`)
+	b.Build(BuildCfg{})
+}
+
 func TestMenuParams(t *testing.T) {
 	b := newTestSitesBuilder(t).WithConfigFile("toml", `
 [[menus.main]]
diff --git a/hugolib/site.go b/hugolib/site.go
index e687710bf..18c9bfc80 100644
--- a/hugolib/site.go
+++ b/hugolib/site.go
@@ -1400,17 +1400,25 @@ func (s *Site) getMenusFromConfig() navigation.Menus {
 				s.Log.Errorf("unable to process menus in site config\n")
 				s.Log.Errorln(err)
 			} else {
+				handleErr := func(err error) {
+					if err == nil {
+						return
+					}
+					s.Log.Errorf("unable to process menus in site config\n")
+					s.Log.Errorln(err)
+
+				}
+
 				for _, entry := range m {
 					s.Log.Debugf("found menu: %q, in site config\n", name)
 
 					menuEntry := navigation.MenuEntry{Menu: name}
 					ime, err := maps.ToStringMapE(entry)
-					if err != nil {
-						s.Log.Errorf("unable to process menus in site config\n")
-						s.Log.Errorln(err)
-					}
+					handleErr(err)
+
+					err = menuEntry.MarshallMap(ime)
+					handleErr(err)
 
-					menuEntry.MarshallMap(ime)
 					// TODO(bep) clean up all of this
 					menuEntry.ConfiguredURL = s.Info.createNodeMenuEntryURL(menuEntry.ConfiguredURL)