New a array or map of json encoder type in Golang

I am pretty new in Golang and encountered the following problem.

// XXX a bit inefficient. could open r files and run over list once
for r := 0; r < nreduce; r++ {
	file, err = os.Create(ReduceName(fileName, JobNumber, r))
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal("DoMap: create ", err)
	}
	enc := json.NewEncoder(file)
	for e := res.Front(); e != nil; e = e.Next() {
		kv := e.Value.(KeyValue)
		if ihash(kv.Key)%uint32(nreduce) == uint32(r) {
			err := enc.Encode(&kv)
			if err != nil {
				log.Fatal("DoMap: marshall ", err)
			}
		}
	}
	file.Close()
}

Basically this code snippet creates a file in each for-loop iteration and then open a file to encode the stuff which belongs to this file, according to a (key, value) pair. However, this code is inefficient since it scan this file for too many times. The more efficient way to do so is to open r files and run over this list file once. So I would like to write like this (but I don't know how to do so):

enc_map := make(map[int]*Encode)
for r := 0; r < nreduce; r++ {
file. err = os.Create(ReduceName(fileName, JobNumber, r))
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal("DoMap: create ", err)
}
enc := json.NewEncoder(file)
enc_map[r] = enc
for e := res.Front(); e != nil; e = e.Next() {
	kv := e.Value.(KeyValue)
	r := ihash(kv.Key)&uint32(nreduce) 
	err := enc_map[r].Encode(&kv)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal("DoMap: marshall ", err)
	}
}

This code snippets first creates a map that saves the json.Encoder objects and then iterate over this file once. I looked up the go documentation and it says the type name of json.Encoder is *Encode. But the line

enc_map := make(map[int]*Encode)

is wrong and the compiler gives me the following error:

../mapreduce/mapreduce.go:228: undefined: Encode
../mapreduce/mapreduce.go:230: file.err undefined (type *os.File has no field or method err)
../mapreduce/mapreduce.go:230: multiple-value os.Create() in single-value context

So what's the right way to do things?

json.NewEncoder(file) returns an object of type *Encoder. Therefore, try editing the line:

enc_map := make(map[int]*Encode)

to:

enc_map := make(map[int]* json.Encoder)

to eliminate the error:

../mapreduce/mapreduce.go:228: undefined: Encode

To get rid of the other 2 errors, i.e.,

../mapreduce/mapreduce.go:230: file.err undefined (type *os.File has no field or method err)
../mapreduce/mapreduce.go:230: multiple-value os.Create() in single-value context

just edit file .err in line:

file. err = os.Create(ReduceName(fileName, JobNumber, r))

to file, err in your code.

I hope this solves the issue you're facing.