Convert a JSON Object to Buffer and Buffer to JSON Object back

Question

I have a JSON object and I m converting it to a Buffer and doing some process here  Later I want to convert the same buffer data to convert to valid JSON object   I m working on Node V6 9 1  Below is the code I tried but I m getting  object object  when I convert back to JSON and cannot open this object   var obj        key  value      key  value      key  value      key  value      key  value     var buf   new Buffer from obj toString      console log  Real Buffer     buf      This prints -- gt  Real Buffer  lt Buffer 5b 6f 62 6a 65 63 74 gt   var temp   buf toString     console log  Buffer to String     buf      This prints -- gt  Buffer to String  object Object    So I tried to print whole object using inspect way  console log  Full temp     require  util   inspect buf    depth  null         This prints -- gt    object object    not printing the obj like declared above    If i try to read it like an array   console log buf 0        This prints -- gt       I tried parsing also it throw SyntaxError  Unexpected token o in JSON at position 2  I need to view it as real object like I created  I mean like declared above    Please help

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You need to stringify the json  not calling toString  var buf   Buffer from JSON stringify obj      And for converting string to json obj    var temp   JSON parse buf toString

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