# Django 4.2.11 documentation

# Django Exceptions

Django raises some of its own exceptions as well as standard Python exceptions.

## Django Core Exceptions

Django core exception classes are defined in `django.core.exceptions`.

### `AppRegistryNotReady`

exception AppRegistryNotReady

  This exception is raised when attempting to use models before the app loading process, which initializes the ORM, is complete.

### `ObjectDoesNotExist`

exception ObjectDoesNotExist

  The base class for `Model.DoesNotExist` exceptions. A `try/except` for `ObjectDoesNotExist` will catch `DoesNotExist` exceptions for all models.

  See `get()`.

### `EmptyResultSet`

exception EmptyResultSet

  `EmptyResultSet` may be raised during query generation if a query won’t return any results. Most Django projects won’t encounter this exception, but it might be useful for implementing custom lookups and expressions.

### `FullResultSet`

exception FullResultSet

New in Django 4.2:

`FullResultSet` may be raised during query generation if a query will match everything. Most Django projects won’t encounter this exception, but it might be useful for implementing custom lookups and expressions.

### `FieldDoesNotExist`

exception FieldDoesNotExist

  The `FieldDoesNotExist` exception is raised by a model’s `_meta.get_field()` method when the requested field does not exist on the model or on the model’s parents.

### `MultipleObjectsReturned`

exception MultipleObjectsReturned

  The base class for `Model.MultipleObjectsReturned` exceptions. A `try/except` for `MultipleObjectsReturned` will catch `MultipleObjectsReturned` exceptions for all models.

  See `get()`.

### `SuspiciousOperation`

exception SuspiciousOperation

  The `SuspiciousOperation` exception is raised when a user has performed an operation that should be considered suspicious from a security perspective, such as tampering with a session cookie. Subclasses of `SuspiciousOperation` include:

  - `DisallowedHost`

  - `DisallowedModelAdminLookup`

  - `DisallowedModelAdminToField`

  - `DisallowedRedirect`

  - `InvalidSessionKey`

  - `RequestDataTooBig`

  - `SuspiciousFileOperation`

  - `SuspiciousMultipartForm`

  - `SuspiciousSession`

  - `TooManyFieldsSent`

  - `TooManyFilesSent`

  If a `SuspiciousOperation` exception reaches the ASGI/WSGI handler level it is logged at the `Error` level and results in a `HttpResponseBadRequest`. See the logging documentation for more information.

Changed in Django 3.2.18:

`SuspiciousOperation` is raised when too many files are submitted.

### `PermissionDenied`

exception PermissionDenied

  The `PermissionDenied` exception is raised when a user does not have permission to perform the action requested.

### `ViewDoesNotExist`

exception ViewDoesNotExist

  The `ViewDoesNotExist` exception is raised by `django.urls` when a requested view does not exist.

### `MiddlewareNotUsed`

exception MiddlewareNotUsed

  The `MiddlewareNotUsed` exception is raised when a middleware is not used in the server configuration.

### `ImproperlyConfigured`

exception ImproperlyConfigured

  The `ImproperlyConfigured` exception is raised when Django is somehow improperly configured – for example, if a value in `settings.py` is incorrect or unparseable.

### `FieldError`

exception FieldError

  The `FieldError` exception is raised when there is a problem with a model field. This can happen for several reasons:

  - A field in a model clashes with a field of the same name from an abstract base class

  - An infinite loop is caused by ordering

  - A keyword cannot be parsed from the filter parameters

  - A field cannot be determined from a keyword in the query parameters

  - A join is not permitted on the specified field

  - A field name is invalid

  - A query contains invalid order_by arguments

### `ValidationError`

exception ValidationError

  The `ValidationError` exception is raised when data fails form or model field validation. For more information about validation, see Form and Field Validation, Model Field Validation and the Validator Reference.

#### `NON_FIELD_ERRORS`

NON_FIELD_ERRORS

`ValidationError`s that don’t belong to a particular field in a form or model are classified as `NON_FIELD_ERRORS`. This constant is used as a key in dictionaries that otherwise map fields to their respective list of errors.

### `BadRequest`

exception BadRequest

  The `BadRequest` exception is raised when the request cannot be processed due to a client error. If a `BadRequest` exception reaches the ASGI/WSGI handler level it results in a `HttpResponseBadRequest`.

### `RequestAborted`

exception RequestAborted

  The `RequestAborted` exception is raised when an HTTP body being read in by the handler is cut off midstream and the client connection closes, or when the client does not send data and hits a timeout where the server closes the connection.

  It is internal to the HTTP handler modules and you are unlikely to see it elsewhere. If you are modifying HTTP handling code, you should raise this when you encounter an aborted request to make sure the socket is closed cleanly.

### `SynchronousOnlyOperation`

exception SynchronousOnlyOperation

  The `SynchronousOnlyOperation` exception is raised when code that is only allowed in synchronous Python code is called from an asynchronous context (a thread with a running asynchronous event loop). These parts of Django are generally heavily reliant on thread-safety to function and don’t work correctly under coroutines sharing the same thread.

  If you are trying to call code that is synchronous-only from an asynchronous thread, then create a synchronous thread and call it in that. You can accomplish this is with `asgiref.sync.sync_to_async()`.

## URL Resolver exceptions

URL Resolver exceptions are defined in `django.urls`.

### `Resolver404`

exception Resolver404

  The `Resolver404` exception is raised by `resolve()` if the path passed to `resolve()` doesn’t map to a view. It’s a subclass of `django.http.Http404`.

### `NoReverseMatch`

exception NoReverseMatch

  The `NoReverseMatch` exception is raised by `django.urls` when a matching URL in your URLconf cannot be identified based on the parameters supplied.

## Database Exceptions

Database exceptions may be imported from `django.db`.

Django wraps the standard database exceptions so that your Django code has a guaranteed common implementation of these classes.

exception Error

exception InterfaceError

exception DatabaseError

exception DataError

exception OperationalError

exception IntegrityError

exception InternalError

exception ProgrammingError

exception NotSupportedError

The Django wrappers for database exceptions behave exactly the same as the underlying database exceptions. See PEP 249, the Python Database API Specification v2.0, for further information.

As per PEP 3134, a `__cause__` attribute is set with the original (underlying) database exception, allowing access to any additional information provided.

exception models.ProtectedError

Raised to prevent deletion of referenced objects when using `django.db.models.PROTECT`. `models.ProtectedError` is a subclass of `IntegrityError`.

exception models.RestrictedError

Raised to prevent deletion of referenced objects when using `django.db.models.RESTRICT`. `models.RestrictedError` is a subclass of `IntegrityError`.

## HTTP Exceptions

HTTP exceptions may be imported from `django.http`.

### `UnreadablePostError`

exception UnreadablePostError

  `UnreadablePostError` is raised when a user cancels an upload.

## Sessions Exceptions

Sessions exceptions are defined in `django.contrib.sessions.exceptions`.

### `SessionInterrupted`

exception SessionInterrupted

  `SessionInterrupted` is raised when a session is destroyed in a concurrent request. It’s a subclass of `BadRequest`.

## Transaction Exceptions

Transaction exceptions are defined in `django.db.transaction`.

### `TransactionManagementError`

exception TransactionManagementError

  `TransactionManagementError` is raised for any and all problems related to database transactions.

## Testing Framework Exceptions

Exceptions provided by the `django.test` package.

### `RedirectCycleError`

exception client.RedirectCycleError

  `RedirectCycleError` is raised when the test client detects a loop or an overly long chain of redirects.

## Python Exceptions

Django raises built-in Python exceptions when appropriate as well. See the Python documentation for further information on the Built-in Exceptions.