Runtime error: assignment to entry in nil map

Question

You have not initialized your inner map. Before your for loop you can add m["uid"] = make(map[string]T) and then assign the name.

You should check if the map is nil and initialize one if it's nil inside the for loop:

if m["uid"] == nil {
    m["uid"] = map[string]T{}
}

There is thing as per the error

assignment to entry in nil map

For nested maps when assign to the deep level key we needs to be certain that its outer key has value. Else it will say that the map is nil. For eg in your case

m := make(map[string]map[string]T, len(names))

m is a nested map which contains string key with map[string]T as value. And you are assign the value

m["uid"][name] = T{cn: "Chaithra", street: "fkmp"}

here you can see the m["uid"] is nil and we are stating it contains a value [name] which is a key to nested value of type T. So first you need to assign value to "uid" or initialise it as

m["uid"] = make(map[string]T)

Probably the map you have define is by using variable var m map[string]interface{}

Instead use m := make(map[string]interface{}) to avoid respective error