I am trying to use autorest to generate my web api client, but the return datacontract types are always generated as object

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I am attempting to call my own Web API call to get a an object that I define as a Data Contract. I am using Swagger to decorate the call, and in the client I am generating the client with AutoREST. However while my calls that pass in a [DataContract] object works fine, the return values are always set as object in the generated client code, rather than the appropriate [DataContract] class I have defined.

I have been searching for more info on Swagger/Swashbuckle and AutoREST and what I need to do, but not a lot of help. This is with VS 2015 Pro using .Net 4.5.2.

When I trace through and look at the actual HttpResponse data, I am getting my object serialized as JSON. However the generated client only wants to deserialize as Object, which of course returns a null. I could hack the generated code, but I would have to do this whenever it gets regenerated.

I would appreciate any insights on this...

What I have tried:

Here is one of the DataContracts:

[DataContract]
public class Company
{
    [DataMember(Name = "id")]
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [DataMember(Name = "companyName")]
    public string CompanyName { get; set; }

    [DataMember(Name = "website")]
    public string Website { get; set; }

    [DataMember(Name = "description")]
    public string CompanyDescription { get; set; }
}

And here is a call to GET an instance:

[SwaggerOperation("GetCompanyById")]
[SwaggerResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK)]
[SwaggerResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound)]
public DataContract.Company Get(int id)
{
    //*** work to retrieve the data, validate etc. ***
    DataContract.Company company = ...
	
    return company;
}