Reflection for nested classes

Question

I see that most people who have been playing with ScalaSigParser, in an effort to ser/des idiomatic Scala case classes in a nice way, have avoided this issue, but I'd like to know if it's possible. I have a situation much like the following:

trait OuterTrait {
  abstract class InnerAbstract(i: Int)
}

object OuterObject extends OuterTrait {
  case class InnerConcrete(i: Int) extends InnerAbstract(i)
}

val bippy = OuterObject.InnerConcrete(123)

val s = serialize(bippy)

// time passes...

val obj = deserialize[OuterObject.InnerConcrete](s)

So, I can find the ScalaSig for OuterTrait, but I haven't managed to find a nice general way to identify the outer object from the InnerConcrete class. Any protips?

Reflection for nested classes

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