Can I use ContextMixin with an APIView

[Leo Breebaart]

I have an APIView for which I would like to pass some extra information to my template in case of HTML rendering. 

It would appear that Django's ContextMixin, which allows me to override get_context_data() and which passes

a 'view' object automatically to my normal Django templates (e.g. TemplateView), is not used in the REST Framework's 

APIViews. My perhaps naive attempt to simply provide it as a superclass to my class-based view does not seem to have any effect either.

Is there a way to achieve what I want, or should I simply not want what I want?

Many thanks in advance for any help.

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Leo Breebaart