try to avoid errors being automatically raised when they should be handled according to the error handling settings

Author: apdavison

fairgraph/client.py

@@ -530,7 +530,10 @@ def delete_instance(self, instance_id: str, ignore_not_found: bool = True, ignor
         """
         Delete a KG instance.
         """
-        UUID(instance_id)
+        if isinstance(instance_id, UUID):
+            instance_id = str(instance_id)
+        else:
+            UUID(instance_id)
         response = self._kg_client.instances.delete(instance_id)
         # response is None if no errors
         if response:  # error

fairgraph/node.py

@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ def _normalize_type(data_item):
             else:
                 try:
                     value = prop.deserialize(data_item)
-                except ValueError as err:
+                except (TypeError, ValueError, AssertionError) as err:
                     ErrorHandling.handle_violation(cls.error_handling, str(err))
                 else:
                     if isinstance(value, Link) and value.allowed_types is not None: