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Browser!! The browser reads it as Number. If your rest api returns {"id": 1324535222364012585} for example, javascript will try and parse that as number from the response!!!

You can of course, change the api such that it does {"id": "1324535222364012585"} instead and voila, it will no longer try parsing it as number. Or the many other workarounds people have recommended above (like appending a prefix, or using a different encoding), but why is it trying to parse a number thats too big and instead of throwing it just rounds down without telling you????!

Huh? The subject was database drivers.

You seem to be talking about JSON. (Which technically has no limit on number size or precision, but in practice is float64.)

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