Code reviewMediumcr-g315

Subject Swallowed exceptionsLevel Mid–Senior~16 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development, IT services

Question

Review this Java method that reads a per-tenant feature limit from config and falls back to a default.

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Code to reviewjava

1int getLimit(String tenant) {2    try {3        String raw = config.get(tenant + ".limit");4        return Integer.parseInt(raw);5    } catch (Exception e) {6        return 100;7    }8}

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