[Bug]: Incorrect error message from HTTP API.

[levand]

What happened?

I called my local Chroma's HTTP API directly to create a collection. However, I accidentally included tenant and database params (since I was also doing some work with Chroma cloud): POST http://localhost:8000/api/v1/collections?tenant=my_tenant&database=my_database.

I got back a 500 error: UniqueConstraintError('Collection 1586333d-0f1d-4f3a-85b3-fc5887ac79f7 already exists')

This error is actively wrong and misleading, given that the true error is an incorrect tenant. It is also highly confusing since it still happens even when the collection name is definitely new and unique, and when get_or_create is set to true.

Note that this is not possible through the Chroma Python API since it gives a user-friendly error when attempting to create a Collection with an invalid tenant.

Versions

Chroma 0.5.6, Python 3.11, MacOS

Relevant log output

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