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Allow registration of a path prefix for sidecar target app on DaprContainer

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## Context

I recently pushed changes to @salaboy's Pizza demo application (see https://github.com/salaboy/pizza/pull/13) to demonstrate how to ease local testing of component dependencies.

Typically, the `Store` component relies on 2 other ones: `Kitchen` and `Delivery` that are expected to be reached via a mesh of sidecars like illustrated below:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/855ca992-ef54-476e-a9fb-8e1f01de9ae1)

In a local development situation, I succeeded - thanks to [this PR on java-sdk](https://github.com/dapr/java-sdk/pull/1210) - in replacing the remote dependencies with local mocks powered by [Microcks](https://microcks.io):

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c7845679-e9fc-4059-8f1c-0c9a8a64d681)

Microcks has a Testcontainers integration, is lightweight and provides mocks + contract-testing for REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Kafka and others, it's an ideal companion for local-testing complex applications made with Dapr.

Even if the above scenario is working well for simple REST services, I'd like to be able to also test this other scenario where the local Dapr sidecar would connect to a sidecars mesh to test/validate advanced Dapr features (security, rate limiting, retries, ...):

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e7cf01c-2665-485d-85ec-d45945049aeb)

Unfortunately, as of today, the above topology cannot be executed. As Microcks is providing simulations for many mocks, the different endpoints it manages are exposed using different subpaths (typically something like `http://microcks:8080/rest//`) and I didn't find a way to provide subpath or path prefix to the `DaprContainer` when connecting it to the local application.

## Describe the proposal

I'd like to have the ability to do something like:

```java
// Start a sidecar and connect it to the simulation provided by
// microcks on http://microcks:8080/rest/Pizza Kitchen/1.0.0
kitchenContainer = new DaprContainer("daprio/daprd")
.withAppName("kitchen-service")
.withAppPort(8080)
.withAppChannelAddress("microcks")
.withAppPathPrefix("/rest/Pizza Kitchen/1.0.0")
.withNetwork(network);

// Start a sidecar and connect it to the simulation provided by
// microcks on http://microcks:8080/rest/Pizza Delivery/1.0.0
deliveryContainer = new DaprContainer("daprio/daprd")
.withAppName("delivery-service")
.withAppPort(8080)
.withAppChannelAddress("microcks")
.withAppPathPrefix("/rest/Pizza Delivery/1.0.0")
.withNetwork(network);
```

I had a quick look at https://docs.dapr.io/concepts/dapr-services/sidecar/ and it seems like this would also require creating a new flag on the sidecar to enable adding this path prefix.

What do you think of this use-case?

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