title: Prepend default value to HTTP request path using Apache http client library
body: <p>I am attempting to set a default base URI path at the time of client configuration using the Apache http client library. However, I cannot find any information on how to go about this.</p>
  
  <p>Essentially, what I am looking to do is inject/prepend a base path onto a given request path by default. So if the request path is something like "/employees/1024", I would like to prepend the path with "/api/v1" so that I would end up with a URI path of "/api/v1/employees/1024" at time of request execution.</p>
  
  <p>I am looking to do this at the time that I am building the HttpClient object. I can definitely implement this logic further down my stack, but I would like to avoid that if possible.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any idea about whether or not this is possible to set during HttpClient configuration? (Either by overriding a settable object method or otherwise)</p>