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Feature values always have type string when using local evaluation mode #146

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@AceFire6

We've started seeing an issue where number values like this one are being returned as type string when enableLocalEvaluation is set to true.
Screenshot 2024-03-01 at 11 38 49

Using this test script I've validated that the local evaluation causes the change in behaviour (thanks Matt for the help 🙌 )

This has been tested on flagsmith-nodejs versions 2.5.1 and 3.2.0

import Flagsmith from 'flagsmith-nodejs';

async function main(): Promise<void> {
    const flagClient = new Flagsmith({
        environmentKey: 'ser.key',
        enableLocalEvaluation: true,
        enableAnalytics: false,
    });

    const environmentFlags = await flagClient.getEnvironmentFlags();
    const flag = environmentFlags.getFlag('daisy.settlements.timeout');
    console.log(`flagClient.apiUrl=${flagClient.apiUrl}`);
    console.log(`flagClient.enableLocalEvaluation=${flagClient.enableLocalEvaluation}`);
    console.log(JSON.stringify(flag));
    console.log(`typeof flag.value=${typeof flag.value}`);

    await flagClient.close();
}

void main();

enableLocalEvaluation=true

flagClient.apiUrl=https://edge.api.flagsmith.com/api/v1/
flagClient.enableLocalEvaluation=true
{"value":"60000","enabled":true,"isDefault":false,"featureId":62178,"featureName":"daisy.settlements.timeout"}
typeof flag.value=string

enableLocalEvaluation=false

flagClient.apiUrl=https://edge.api.flagsmith.com/api/v1/
flagClient.enableLocalEvaluation=false
{"value":60000,"enabled":true,"isDefault":false,"featureId":62178,"featureName":"daisy.settlements.timeout"}
typeof flag.value=number

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