[ENH]: Improve tenant and DB validation handling

chromadb/__init__.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     "UpdateCollectionMetadata",
     "QueryResult",
     "GetResult",
+    "__version__",
 ]
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

chromadb/api/client.py

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 from overrides import override
 import requests
+
+from chromadb import __version__ as local_chroma_version
 from chromadb.api import AdminAPI, ClientAPI, ServerAPI
 from chromadb.api.types import (
     CollectionMetadata,
@@ -141,10 +143,9 @@ def __init__(
         self.database = database
         # Create an admin client for verifying that databases and tenants exist
         self._admin_client = AdminClient.from_system(self._system)
-        self._validate_tenant_database(tenant=tenant, database=database)
-
         # Get the root system component we want to interact with
         self._server = self._system.instance(ServerAPI)
+        self._validate_tenant_database(tenant=tenant, database=database)
 
         # Submit event for a client start
         telemetry_client = self._system.instance(ProductTelemetryClient)
@@ -425,7 +426,11 @@ def set_database(self, database: str) -> None:
 
     def _validate_tenant_database(self, tenant: str, database: str) -> None:
         try:
-            self._admin_client.get_tenant(name=tenant)
+            try:
+                self._admin_client.get_tenant(name=tenant)
+            except Exception as e1:
+                print(type(e1))
+                raise e1
         except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
             raise ValueError(
                 "Could not connect to a Chroma server. Are you sure it is running?"
@@ -437,8 +442,9 @@ def _validate_tenant_database(self, tenant: str, database: str) -> None:
                 )
             if ex.response.status_code == 404:
                 raise ValueError(
-                    f"It appears your Chroma server is running an older version of Chroma {self.get_version()}. "
-                    "Please upgrade to the latest version."
+                    f"It appears you are using newer version of Chroma client (v{local_chroma_version}) "
+                    f"that is not compatible with  Chroma server (v{self.get_version()}). "
+                    "Please upgrade your server to the latest version."
                 )
             else:
                 raise ValueError(

chromadb/api/fastapi.py

@@ -624,7 +624,4 @@ def raise_chroma_error(resp: requests.Response) -> None:
     if chroma_error:
         raise chroma_error
 
-    try:
-        resp.raise_for_status()
-    except requests.HTTPError:
-        raise (Exception(resp.text))
+    resp.raise_for_status()