From 80e60847fb5d12f6a54fae782cb643a1772c38b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Mooring <joe.mooring@veriphor.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 17:44:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] config: Preserve intentionally empty maps

Closes #14944
---
 parser/lowercase_camel_json.go  | 14 +++++++++-----
 testscripts/commands/config.txt |  1 +
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/parser/lowercase_camel_json.go b/parser/lowercase_camel_json.go
index 7d6afc919..4749aff63 100644
--- a/parser/lowercase_camel_json.go
+++ b/parser/lowercase_camel_json.go
@@ -107,29 +107,33 @@ func (c ReplacingJSONMarshaller) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
-		var removeZeroVAlues func(m map[string]any)
-		removeZeroVAlues = func(m map[string]any) {
+		var removeZeroValues func(m map[string]any)
+		removeZeroValues = func(m map[string]any) {
 			for k, v := range m {
 				if !hreflect.IsMap(v) && !hreflect.IsTruthful(v) {
 					delete(m, k)
 				} else {
 					switch vv := v.(type) {
 					case map[string]any:
-						removeZeroVAlues(vv)
+						if len(vv) == 0 {
+							// Keep intentionally empty map.
+							continue
+						}
+						removeZeroValues(vv)
 						if len(vv) == 0 {
 							delete(m, k)
 						}
 					case []any:
 						for _, vvv := range vv {
 							if m, ok := vvv.(map[string]any); ok {
-								removeZeroVAlues(m)
+								removeZeroValues(m)
 							}
 						}
 					}
 				}
 			}
 		}
-		removeZeroVAlues(m)
+		removeZeroValues(m)
 		converted, err = json.Marshal(m)
 
 	}
diff --git a/testscripts/commands/config.txt b/testscripts/commands/config.txt
index f920ef209..480f1135b 100644
--- a/testscripts/commands/config.txt
+++ b/testscripts/commands/config.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ stdout 'Display project configuration'
 
 hugo config
 stdout 'baseurl = .https://example.com/'
+stdout '\[contenttypes\.'
 hugo config --format json
 stdout '\"baseurl\": \"https://example.com/\",'