I searched on stackoverflow already, and couldn't find an answer for converting an array buffer to an object; only found answers for a string.

I tried to follow answers using string methods and translate that to object methids but I couldn't figure it out.

This is what I am getting on the client side. I want to convert this back to an object:

Array [
  123,
  34,
  114,
  101,
  97,
  100,
  34,
  58,
  102,
  97,
  108,
  115,
  101,
  44,
  34,
  116,
  105,
  109,
  101,
  83,
  101,
  110,
  116,
  34,
  58,
  49,
  54,
  52,
  54,
  49,
  55,
  49,
  57,
  50,
  50,
  55,
  48,
  49,
  44,
  34,
  109,
  101,
  115,
  115,
  97,
  103,
  101,
  34,
  58,
  34,
  101,
  116,
  114,
  104,
  34,
  44,
  34,
  117,
  115,
  101,
  114,
  73,
  68,
  34,
  58,
  52,
  55,
  44,
  34,
  99,
  111,
  110,
  116,
  97,
  99,
  116,
  73,
  68,
  34,
  58,
  52,
  55,
  125,
]

This function converts from the array to a string:

function arrayBufferToString(buffer) {
    var arr = new Uint8Array(buffer);
    var str = String.fromCharCode.apply(String, arr);
    if (/[\u0080-\uffff]/.test(str)) {
      throw new Error(
        "this string seems to contain (still encoded) multibytes"
      );
    }
    return str;
  }

This is what I am getting after running the above function:

{"read":false,"timeSent":1646174304184,"message":"hjefjhewk","userID":47,"contactID":47}

This is the expected output/return value:

{
  read: false,
  timeSent: 1646196262824,
  message: 'Hi',
  userID: 41,
  contactID: 47
}