lfnovo/open-notebook · error · HTTPException

Error getting model count: {str(e)}

Error message

Error getting model count: {str(e)}

What it means

Generic 500 from GET /api/v1/models/count/{provider} when counting the provider's models fails unexpectedly — almost always a database query failure, since counting is a single repo query.

Source

Thrown at api/routers/models.py:664

    Returns counts for each model type (language, embedding,
    speech_to_text, text_to_speech) as well as total count.
    """
    try:
        counts = await get_provider_model_count(provider)
        total = sum(counts.values())
        return ProviderModelCountResponse(
            provider=provider,
            counts=counts,
            total=total,
        )
    except HTTPException:
        raise
    except OpenNotebookError:
        raise
    except Exception as e:
        logger.error(f"Error getting model count for {provider}: {str(e)}")
        raise HTTPException(
            status_code=500, detail=f"Error getting model count: {str(e)}"
        )


@router.get("/models/by-provider/{provider}", response_model=List[ModelResponse])
async def get_models_by_provider(provider: str):
    """
    Get all registered models for a specific provider.

    Returns models from the database that belong to the specified provider.
    """
    try:
        from open_notebook.database.repository import repo_query

        models = await repo_query(
            "SELECT * FROM model WHERE provider = $provider ORDER BY type, name",
            {"provider": provider},
        )

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Solutions

  1. Check API logs for 'Error getting model count for {provider}'
  2. Verify DB connectivity
  3. Retry after the DB is healthy
Defensive patterns

Strategy: retry

Validate before calling

await fetch('/api/v1/health').then(r => { if (!r.ok) throw new Error('API unhealthy'); });

Try / catch

try { return await api.getModelCount(provider); } catch (e) { if (e.status === 500) return null; }

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: GET /models/count/{provider} while SurrealDB is unreachable or the query raises a non-domain error.

Common situations: DB outage or restart; provider string containing characters that break the query.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of lfnovo/open-notebook@a7de90d38a (2026-08-27). Data as JSON: /api/errors/98729fe6d5183d6e. Report an issue: GitHub.