How to use uMapper to return strong POCO types in Umbraco MVC mode

ApplicationStartupHandler.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
using UmbracoStrongTypeViews.Controllers;

namespace UmbracoStrongTypeViews.App_Start {
    public class ApplicationStartupHandler : IApplicationEventHandler {
        public void OnApplicationInitialized(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext) {
            
        }

        public void OnApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext) {
            DefaultRenderMvcControllerResolver.Current.SetDefaultControllerType(typeof(BassFunkyController));
        }

        public void OnApplicationStarting(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext) {
            
        }
    }
}

BassFunkyController.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using uComponents.Mapping;
using umbraco.NodeFactory;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;

namespace UmbracoStrongTypeViews.Controllers {
    public class BassFunkyController : RenderMvcController {

        public override System.Web.Mvc.ActionResult Index(Umbraco.Web.Models.RenderModel model) {
            try {
                var hasMapping = uMapper.Engine.NodeMappers;
                if (hasMapping.Any(p => p.Value.SourceDocumentType.Alias == model.Content.DocumentTypeAlias)) {
                    // We're able to map current node type to a POCO.
                    Type resultType = hasMapping.First(p => p.Value.SourceDocumentType.Alias == model.Content.DocumentTypeAlias).Value.DestinationType;
                    var typeConversion = typeof(uMapper).GetMethod("Map").MakeGenericMethod(resultType);
                    var rawObject = typeConversion.Invoke(resultType, new object[] { new Node(model.Content.Id), false });
                    return CurrentTemplate(rawObject);
                } else {
                    // No POCO model, so return Rendermodel
                    return base.Index(model);
                }
            } catch (InvalidOperationException NoObjectException) {
                // Exception, return base RenderModel
                return base.Index(model);
            }
        }

    }
}

Homepage.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace UmbracoStrongTypeViews.Models {
    public class Homepage {
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string BodyText { get; set; }
    }
}

Homepage.cshtml

@model Homepage
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Homepage";
}

<h2>@Model.Title</h2>
@Html.Raw(Model.BodyText)

Web.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <sectionGroup name="system.web.webPages.razor" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorWebSectionGroup, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">
      <section name="host" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" />
      <section name="pages" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorPagesSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" />
    </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>

  <system.web.webPages.razor>
    <host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
    <pages pageBaseType="Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage">
      <namespaces>
        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
        <add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
      <add namespace="Umbraco.Web" /><add namespace="Umbraco.Core" /><add namespace="Umbraco.Core.Models" /><add namespace="Umbraco.Web.Mvc" /><add namespace="Microsoft.Web.Helpers" /><add namespace="umbraco" /><add namespace="Examine" /></namespaces>
    </pages>
  </system.web.webPages.razor>

  <appSettings>
    <add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" />
  </appSettings>

  <system.web>
    <httpHandlers>
      <add path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler" />
    </httpHandlers>

    <!--
        Enabling request validation in view pages would cause validation to occur
        after the input has already been processed by the controller. By default
        MVC performs request validation before a controller processes the input.
        To change this behavior apply the ValidateInputAttribute to a
        controller or action.
    -->
    <!--
        Enabling request validation in view pages would cause validation to occur
        after the input has already been processed by the controller. By default
        MVC performs request validation before a controller processes the input.
        To change this behavior apply the ValidateInputAttribute to a
        controller or action.
    --><pages validateRequest="false" pageParserFilterType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewTypeParserFilter, System.Web.Mvc, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage, System.Web.Mvc, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" userControlBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl, System.Web.Mvc, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">
      <controls>
        <add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" namespace="System.Web.Mvc" tagPrefix="mvc" />
      </controls>
    </pages>
  </system.web>

  <system.webServer>
    <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />

    <handlers>
      <remove name="BlockViewHandler" />
      <add name="BlockViewHandler" path="*" verb="*" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler" />
    </handlers>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Note generic type Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage is the base page type in Views/web.config.
By default this expects T to be a RenderModel, but in all honesty it can be absolutely anything you like - hence our ability to dynamically dispatch uMapper to return a POCO representation of our model via overriding Index() to return CurrentTemplate() instead.