---
title: "Exceptions — HTTP Client Rate Limits for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Every typed exception the package throws, when it happens, and one base class to catch them all."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/http-client-rate-limits-for-laravel/exceptions
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# Exceptions

Every exception lives in RoundlyConsulting\\HttpClientRateLimits\\Exceptions and extends RateLimitException:

| Exception | Thrown when |
| --- | --- |
| `RateLimitException` | Base class (extends RuntimeException) — catch it to handle the whole family below. |
| `RateLimitExceededException` | A computed wait exceeds the maxWait() ceiling (the tightest one across a compound limit’s windows). Exposes key, delayMs and maxWaitMs. |
| `JobReleasedException` | The ReleaseDeferrer has released the queued job. Exposes delaySeconds, key and job; the HandlesRateLimitRelease job middleware ends the attempt cleanly. |
| `InvalidLimitException` | A limit allows fewer than one request per window (a rate or maxAttempts below 1), or Http::rateLimit() gets an empty array or an array entry that isn’t a Limit, a RateLimit, a profile name or an integer. |
| `UnknownLimiterProfileException` | A profile name isn’t defined under limiters (or its entry there isn’t an array). |
| `InvalidStoreException` | The configured store doesn’t implement the Store contract. |
| `InvalidDeferrerException` | The configured deferrer doesn’t implement Deferrer, or releasingJob() / ReleaseDeferrer gets a job without release(). |
| `InvalidTimespanException` | A timespan string — also a profile’s per — isn’t one of second, minute, hour, day. |
| `UndefinedMethodException` | A method called on RateLimit exists on neither Limit nor Limiter. |

## Catching everything

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\HttpClientRateLimits\Exceptions\RateLimitException;

try {
    Http::rateLimit('github')->get('https://api.github.com/user');
} catch (RateLimitException $e) {
    // Any package error: unknown profile, max wait exceeded, invalid store/deferrer, …
    report($e);
}
```

In a queued job using the ReleaseDeferrer, a catch-all also swallows JobReleasedException — and the job is already back on the queue, so the attempt carries on as if the request had run while the re-queued copy runs again later. Catch narrower, or rethrow the release first and let HandlesRateLimitRelease end the attempt:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\HttpClientRateLimits\Exceptions\JobReleasedException;
use RoundlyConsulting\HttpClientRateLimits\Exceptions\RateLimitException;

try {
    Http::withMiddleware(RateLimits::releasingJob($this)->perMinute(60)->by('github'))->get($url);
} catch (JobReleasedException $released) {
    throw $released; // HandlesRateLimitRelease ends the attempt
} catch (RateLimitException $e) {
    // a real limit or setup failure
}
```

Some errors from the same calls are not RateLimitExceptions: package-toolkit’s InvalidConfigurationException for a malformed config value (see Configuration), Laravel’s LockTimeoutException when the CacheStore can’t take a window lock in time, a RequestException rethrown from a handle() callback that calls ->throw(), and a store backend’s own failures — Redis connection errors, database QueryExceptions — which pass through unwrapped.

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