# How to prevent long integers from rounding up without turning them into strings?

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**Created:** [February 3, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/how-to-prevent-long-integers-from-rounding-up-without-turning-them-into-strings/2651 "2023-02-03T19:26:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamara](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/tamara/32/2019_2.png) [@Tamara](https://community.parabola.io/u/Tamara)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/how-to-prevent-long-integers-from-rounding-up-without-turning-them-into-strings/2651/1 "2023-02-03T19:26:03Z")

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I’m trying to use Parabola to access my company’s API to perform some tasks in the system. The flow needs to happen something like that:

- POST call to “Create a collection” =\> Parabola returns collection ID
- POST call to “Create an asset in collection” =\> Parabola should return Asset ID

The problem is the IDs in our system are really long integers that look like this: `6118361822122996244`. So when I try to put it into JSON body, it gets rounded to something like this `6118361822122997000`, which, of course, doesn’t work because our system doesn’t recognize the ID. When trying to pass this ID as a string, I get the `"cannot unmarshal string into Go struct field AssetLinkInput.collection_ids of type int64"` error.

I made the same calls from Postman, and it doesn’t round the numbers, so the first call (pass the ID as an integer) works fine, and the second one (pass as a string) returns the same message. I confirmed with my devs that the second error is on our side (albeit, expected), but the first one seems to be how Parabola handles those numbers.

I couldn’t find similar problems posted by other people in this community, so hoping there’s an easy workaround for this issue?

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**Author:** ![Emory\_Stainbrook](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/emory_stainbrook/32/1772_2.png) [@Emory\_Stainbrook](https://community.parabola.io/u/Emory_Stainbrook)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/how-to-prevent-long-integers-from-rounding-up-without-turning-them-into-strings/2651/2 "2023-02-03T21:39:36Z")

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Hi @Tamara - Happy to help with this! Could you please reach out at [help@parabola.io](mailto:help@parabola.io) and send over a link to the Flow so we can take a closer look at how this is set up as well as the error message you are seeing on your side?