From 08ecd39a1e47a59b581d4132cd1202feef61d003 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven WdV <swdv@cs.ru.nl>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:07:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add tests for invalid merge key handling for traverse

---
 pkg/yqlib/operator_traverse_path_test.go | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/yqlib/operator_traverse_path_test.go b/pkg/yqlib/operator_traverse_path_test.go
index 58ae6263..65ec97f9 100644
--- a/pkg/yqlib/operator_traverse_path_test.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/operator_traverse_path_test.go
@@ -612,6 +612,25 @@ var traversePathOperatorScenarios = []expressionScenario{
 			"D0, P[a], (!!int)::2\n",
 		},
 	},
+	{
+		skipDoc:        true,
+		description:    "Traversing map with invalid merge anchor should not fail",
+		subdescription: "Otherwise code cannot do anything with it",
+		document:       `{a: 42, <<: 37}`,
+		expression:     `.a`,
+		expected: []string{
+			"D0, P[a], (!!int)::42\n",
+		},
+	},
+	{
+		skipDoc:     true,
+		description: "Directly accessing invalid merge anchor should not fail",
+		document:    `{<<: 37}`,
+		expression:  `.<<`,
+		expected: []string{
+			"D0, P[<<], (!!int)::37\n",
+		},
+	},
 }
 
 func TestTraversePathOperatorScenarios(t *testing.T) {