can't access an object's properties after passing into a socket

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Current behaviour

What is actually happening? I can't access an object's key/value pair after passing it into the socket.

Steps to reproduce (if the current behaviour is a bug)

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Expected behaviour

What is expected?

Setup

• OS: Mojave 10.14.5
• browser: Chrome
• socket.io version: 2.2.0

Other information (e.g. stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix)

const io = require('../chat.index').io;
const redis = require('socket.io-redis');
const globalUsers = {};

io.adapter(redis({host: '127.0.0.1', port: 6379}));

/* object sent in
{
  recipient: "christian",
  content: "hi"
}
*/
module.exports = socket =>  {
  socket.on('message', (data, callback) => {
    const { recipient } = data;
    console.log('data --> ', data); // <--- Object that was sent in
    console.log('recipient -->', recipient); // <-- undefined
    console.log('data.recipient -->', data.recipient); //<-- undefined
    console.log('globalUsers -->', globalUsers); //<---object of users
    if (recipient in globalUsers) {
        socket.to(globalUsers[recipient]).volatile.emit('message', data);
    } else {
      console.log('not found :(', globalUsers); //<--- always here since undefined
    }
  });
}

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this is the output from the terminal:

data -->  {
  recipient: "christian",
  content: "hi"
}
recipient --> undefined
data.recipient --> undefined
globalUsers --> {
   christian: 'igi-K6FauBbf50G4AAAA',
  john: 'MiehwQ2NCSvsQNH-AAAB',
}
not found :( {
   christian: 'igi-K6FauBbf50G4AAAA',
  john: 'MiehwQ2NCSvsQNH-AAAB',
}