Catching DoesNotExist exception in a custom manager in Django

If you need to implement this on a list method (DRF) using GenericViewSet, and need an empty list to be returned, use this:

    def list(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    self.get_object() # I use this to trigger the object_permission
    try:
        queryset = self.queryset.filter(user=(YourModel.objects.get(user=request.user).user))
    except YourModel.DoesNotExist:
        return Response(YourModel.objects.none())

    serializer = YSourModelSerializer(queryset, many=True)
    return Response(serializer.data)

As panchicore suggested, self.model is the way to go.

class TaskManager(models.Manager):
    def task_depend_tree(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if "id" in kwargs:
            try:
                task = self.get(id=kwargs["id"])
            except self.model.DoesNotExist:
                raise Http404

Try either using ObjectDoesNotExist instead of DoesNotExist or possibly self.DoesNotExist. If all else fails, just try and catch a vanilla Exception and evaluate it to see it's type().

from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist

you can use the DoesNotExist from the Manager.model (self.model) instance, when you say objects = MyManager() you are assigning self.model inside MyManager class.

        try:
            task = self.get(id=kwargs["id"])
            return task
        except self.DoesNotExist:
            return None