Fall back to lazy load using try except block

Author: sahilds1

server/api/apps.py

@@ -6,28 +6,32 @@ class ApiConfig(AppConfig):
     name = 'api'
 
     def ready(self):
-        import os
-        import sys
-
-        # ready() runs in every Django process: migrate, test, shell, runserver, etc.
-        # Only preload the model when we're actually going to serve requests.
-        # Dev (docker-compose.yml) runs `manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000`.
-        # Prod (Dockerfile.prod CMD) runs `manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 --noreload`.
-        # entrypoint.prod.sh also runs migrate, createsu, and populatedb before exec'ing
-        # runserver — the guard below correctly skips model loading for those commands too.
-        if sys.argv[1:2] != ['runserver']:
-            return
-
-        # Dev's autoreloader spawns two processes: a parent file-watcher and a child
-        # server. ready() runs in both, but only the child (RUN_MAIN=true) serves
-        # requests. Skip the parent to avoid loading the model twice on each file change.
-        # Prod uses --noreload so RUN_MAIN is never set; 'noreload' in sys.argv handles that case.
-        if os.environ.get('RUN_MAIN') != 'true' and '--noreload' not in sys.argv:
-            return
-
-        # Note: paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 (~80MB) is downloaded from HuggingFace on first
-        # use and cached to ~/.cache/torch/sentence_transformers/ inside the container.
-        # That cache is ephemeral — every container rebuild re-downloads the model unless
-        # a volume is mounted at that path.
-        from .services.sentencetTransformer_model import TransformerModel
-        TransformerModel.get_instance()
+        
+        try: 
+            import os
+            import sys
+    
+            # ready() runs in every Django process: migrate, test, shell, runserver, etc.
+            # Only preload the model when we're actually going to serve requests.
+            # Dev (docker-compose.yml) runs `manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000`.
+            # Prod (Dockerfile.prod CMD) runs `manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 --noreload`.
+            # entrypoint.prod.sh also runs migrate, createsu, and populatedb before exec'ing
+            # runserver — the guard below correctly skips model loading for those commands too.
+            if sys.argv[1:2] != ['runserver']:
+                return
+    
+            # Dev's autoreloader spawns two processes: a parent file-watcher and a child
+            # server. ready() runs in both, but only the child (RUN_MAIN=true) serves
+            # requests. Skip the parent to avoid loading the model twice on each file change.
+            # Prod uses --noreload so RUN_MAIN is never set; 'noreload' in sys.argv handles that case.
+            if os.environ.get('RUN_MAIN') != 'true' and '--noreload' not in sys.argv:
+                return
+    
+            # Note: paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 (~80MB) is downloaded from HuggingFace on first
+            # use and cached to ~/.cache/torch/sentence_transformers/ inside the container.
+            # That cache is ephemeral — every container rebuild re-downloads the model unless
+            # a volume is mounted at that path.
+            from .services.sentencetTransformer_model import TransformerModel
+            TransformerModel.get_instance()
+        except Exception:
+            logger.exception("Failed to preload the embedding model at startup")