Both engines raise a BfabricRequestError if the endpoint was not fo…

…und.

bfabric/engine/engine_suds.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import copy
 from typing import Any, TYPE_CHECKING
 
+import suds.transport
 from suds import MethodNotFound
 from suds.client import Client
 
@@ -85,7 +86,13 @@ def delete(self, endpoint: str, id: int | list[int], auth: BfabricAuth) -> Resul
     def _get_suds_service(self, endpoint: str) -> ServiceProxy:
         """Returns a SUDS service for the given endpoint. Reuses existing instances when possible."""
         if endpoint not in self._cl:
-            self._cl[endpoint] = Client(f"{self._base_url}/{endpoint}?wsdl", cache=None)
+            try:
+                self._cl[endpoint] = Client(f"{self._base_url}/{endpoint}?wsdl", cache=None)
+            except suds.transport.TransportError as error:
+                if error.httpcode == 404:
+                    msg = f"Non-existent endpoint {repr(endpoint)} or the configured B-Fabric instance was not found."
+                    raise BfabricRequestError(msg) from error
+                raise
         return self._cl[endpoint].service
 
     def _convert_results(self, response: Any, endpoint: str) -> ResultContainer:

bfabric/engine/engine_zeep.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import copy
 from typing import Any, TYPE_CHECKING
 
+import requests
 import zeep
 from zeep.helpers import serialize_object
 
@@ -109,7 +110,13 @@ def delete(self, endpoint: str, id: int | list[int], auth: BfabricAuth) -> Resul
 
     def _get_client(self, endpoint: str) -> zeep.Client:
         if endpoint not in self._cl:
-            self._cl[endpoint] = zeep.Client(f"{self._base_url}/{endpoint}?wsdl")
+            try:
+                self._cl[endpoint] = zeep.Client(f"{self._base_url}/{endpoint}?wsdl")
+            except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as error:
+                if error.response is not None and error.response.status_code == 404:
+                    msg = f"Non-existent endpoint {repr(endpoint)} or the configured B-Fabric instance was not found."
+                    raise BfabricRequestError(msg) from error
+                raise
         return self._cl[endpoint]
 
     def _convert_results(self, response: Any, endpoint: str) -> ResultContainer:

docs/changelog.md

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Versioning currently follows `X.Y.Z` where
 
 - `bfabric_read.py` prints non-output information exclusively through logger and does not restrict entity types anymore.
 - `bfabric_delete.py` accepts multiple ids at once and does not restrict entity types anymore.
+- Both engines raise a `BfabricRequestError` if the endpoint was not found.
 
 ### Removed