Restore call convention compatibility in get_model #304
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A bug surfaced where first time evaluation of a model fails due to the Model constructor throwing if the model does not exist.
Looking deeper, we see that most calls to get_model expect a possible None response and check at the call site. Unfortunately we get the same WebserviceException class for a model not being found as we do a REST error or similar.
This change is a stopgap mitigation to restore compatibility with the existing callers, and compromises by allowing the model version dependent behavior to continue passing on exceptions.
In a future follow up we should settle on a convention and allow version checks to propagate failure while still giving the possibility for handling a service exception in the caller.