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The part before the at sign is opaque: it is not a database row you can look up and it is not always a phone number, which is why newer group and channel events may carry a linked identity instead. Two suffixes exist for ordinary users because the web and mobile stacks grew up separately, and different libraries normalise to different ones. Wapito hides most of this: outputs always use one canonical user suffix, and inputs accept several forms so you can pass whatever your data already holds. What you must not do is build a JID by hand from an integer, because a group identifier is longer than a 64-bit integer and languages that parse JSON numbers eagerly will quietly round it. Keep every JID a string, from your database column type through to your logs.",{"example":7,"field":8},"{\"chat_id\": \"441234567890@s.whatsapp.net\", \"from\": \"441234567890\"}","chat_id","Meta's Cloud API never exposes a JID. 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