If you need a specific exotic JSON parser to parse the numbers you have correctly, I would argue that you should serialise them as strings and not as numbers.

If you need a specific exotic JSON parser to parse the numbers you have correctly, I would argue that you should serialise them as strings and not as numbers. That's what prometheus is doing for example. https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/ https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/