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[sdk/local-evaluation] Multivariate flag with overrides crashes on BigInt serialization (8.1.0) / resolves to a null variant (7.0.3)

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**Summary**

Under local evaluation `(enableLocalEvaluation: true)`, evaluating a multivariate flag fails.
We observe two different behaviours depending on the SDK version, against the same environment:

| `flagsmith-nodejs` | Result |
|---|---|
| **8.1.0** (latest) | `getIdentityFlags()` throws `TypeError: Do not know how to serialize a BigInt` |
| **7.0.3** | No throw, but the flag resolves to a `null` value instead of one of the multivariate variant values — even though `enabled` is `true` and the segment matches |

Remote evaluation (`enableLocalEvaluation: false`) resolves the variant correctly in both versions, so this is specific to the local-evaluation engine.

This may be related to #267 (same `mapIdentityOverridesToSegments` / local-evaluation path), but the trigger and symptom are different, so we're reporting it separately.

### Environment

- `flagsmith-nodejs` `8.1.0` and `7.0.3`
- Node.js v22.13.1
- Server-side SDK key, Edge API (`https://edge.api.flagsmith.com/api/v1/`)
- `enableLocalEvaluation: true`, `environmentRefreshIntervalSeconds: 60`

### Steps to reproduce

1. Create a **MULTIVARIATE** flag with a weighted split (e.g. 33/34/33 across three options).
2. Add a **segment override** for that flag.
3. Ensure the environment also contains at least one **identity override** entry.
4. With `enableLocalEvaluation: true`, call:
```ts
await flagsmith.getIdentityFlags(identifier, { currency: 'EUR', domain: 'https://www.example.com' });
```

The environment additionally contains several `identity_overrides` entries (5 in our case, identifiers redacted).

### Actual behaviour

**8.1.0 — stack trace:**
```
TypeError: Do not know how to serialize a BigInt
at JSON.stringify ()
at mapIdentityOverridesToSegments (flagsmith-engine/evaluation/evaluationContext/mappers.js:130:81)
at mapEnvironmentModelToEvaluationContext (flagsmith-engine/evaluation/evaluationContext/mappers.js:69:36)
at getEvaluationContext (flagsmith-engine/evaluation/evaluationContext/mappers.js:9:32)
at Flagsmith.getIdentityFlagsFromDocument (sdk/index.js:385:63)
at async Flagsmith.getIdentityFlags (sdk/index.js:192:24)
```
The error is thrown while building the evaluation context, before any specific flag is read, so
it fails `getIdentityFlags()` for every flag in the environment — not only the multivariate one.

**7.0.3:** no error, but the value of the multivariate flag comes back as `null` (the override's
base `feature_state_value`) instead of one of the configured variant values.

### Expected behaviour

`getIdentityFlags()` should resolve the multivariate flag to one of its variant values (the deterministic percentage split), matching what remote evaluation returns, without throwing.

Thank you in advance for your help

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Línea de trabajo

Start with flagsmith-engine/evaluation/evaluationContext/mappers.js, especially mapIdentityOverridesToSegments and mapEnvironmentModelToEvaluationContext, then trace how sdk/index.js calls getIdentityFlagsFromDocument. Reproduce with local evaluation, a multivariate flag, segment and identity overrides, and compare versions 8.1.0 and 7.0.3. Done means getIdentityFlags() does not throw and returns a configured variant value consistently with remote evaluation.

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nodejs, typescript
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