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Node.js drivers will correctly read int64 as string or bigint, not number.
E.g. pg for PostgreSQL
Maybe there’s a buggy driver but I don’t know it.
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Node.js drivers will correctly read int64 as string or bigint, not number.
E.g. pg for PostgreSQL
Maybe there’s a buggy driver but I don’t know it.
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????!