Remove ConfigurationError in favor of Django's ImproperlyConfigured

4 files changed, 6 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/exceptions.py b/rest_framework/exceptions.py
index 0c96ecdd..425a7214 100644
--- a/rest_framework/exceptions.py
+++ b/rest_framework/exceptions.py
@@ -86,10 +86,3 @@ class Throttled(APIException):
             self.detail = format % (self.wait, self.wait != 1 and 's' or '')
         else:
             self.detail = detail or self.default_detail
-
-
-class ConfigurationError(Exception):
-    """
-    Indicates an internal server error.
-    """
-    pass
diff --git a/rest_framework/generics.py b/rest_framework/generics.py
index 9ccc7898..80efad01 100644
--- a/rest_framework/generics.py
+++ b/rest_framework/generics.py
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ class GenericAPIView(views.APIView):
             )
             filter_kwargs = {self.slug_field: slug}
         else:
-            raise exceptions.ConfigurationError(
+            raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                 'Expected view %s to be called with a URL keyword argument '
                 'named "%s". Fix your URL conf, or set the `.lookup_field` '
                 'attribute on the view correctly.' %
diff --git a/rest_framework/renderers.py b/rest_framework/renderers.py
index b2fe43ea..8b2428ad 100644
--- a/rest_framework/renderers.py
+++ b/rest_framework/renderers.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import copy
 import json
 from django import forms
+from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.http.multipartparser import parse_header
 from django.template import RequestContext, loader, Template
 from django.utils.xmlutils import SimplerXMLGenerator
@@ -18,7 +19,6 @@ from rest_framework.compat import StringIO
 from rest_framework.compat import six
 from rest_framework.compat import smart_text
 from rest_framework.compat import yaml
-from rest_framework.exceptions import ConfigurationError
 from rest_framework.settings import api_settings
 from rest_framework.request import clone_request
 from rest_framework.utils import encoders
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ class TemplateHTMLRenderer(BaseRenderer):
             return [self.template_name]
         elif hasattr(view, 'get_template_names'):
             return view.get_template_names()
-        raise ConfigurationError('Returned a template response with no template_name')
+        raise ImproperlyConfigured('Returned a template response with no template_name')
 
     def get_exception_template(self, response):
         template_names = [name % {'status_code': response.status_code}
diff --git a/rest_framework/throttling.py b/rest_framework/throttling.py
index 93ea9816..9d89d1cb 100644
--- a/rest_framework/throttling.py
+++ b/rest_framework/throttling.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Provides various throttling policies.
 """
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from django.core.cache import cache
-from rest_framework import exceptions
+from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from rest_framework.settings import api_settings
 import time
 
@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ class SimpleRateThrottle(BaseThrottle):
         if not getattr(self, 'scope', None):
             msg = ("You must set either `.scope` or `.rate` for '%s' throttle" %
                    self.__class__.__name__)
-            raise exceptions.ConfigurationError(msg)
+            raise ImproperlyConfigured(msg)
 
         try:
             return self.settings.DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES[self.scope]
         except KeyError:
             msg = "No default throttle rate set for '%s' scope" % self.scope
-            raise exceptions.ConfigurationError(msg)
+            raise ImproperlyConfigured(msg)
 
     def parse_rate(self, rate):
         """