Convert a buffer to a Javascript object or JSON

I’m trying to convert a Buffer to JSON object. I’ve tried a lot of measures so far. but it doesn’t seem to work.

Here’s my buffer:

<Buffer 7b 22 6d 65 73 73 61 67 65 73 22 3a 5b 5d 2c 2.... 4972 more bytes>

Steps I’ve tried:

console.log('Object1', JSON.stringify(request.response.body));  

output: {“type”:”Buffer”,”data”:[]}

console.log('test2.....', JSON.parse(request.response.body));

JSON.parse() is not logging any output, even after waiting for long.

How do I convert this to a readable JS object?