)

* fix: Support Pandas future.infer_string=True in report generation

Previously, report generation encountered issues when
`future.infer_string=True` was set. This resulted in multiple warnings
("FutureWarning: Dtype inference on a pandas object is deprecated") and
failures when string columns contained only empty strings
("AttributeError: 'StringDtype' object has no attribute
'pyarrow_dtype'").
This change resolves the issue by explicitly setting the dtype to
"object" for the relevant operations.

* refactor: Refactor pandas option usage for backward compatibility

- Introduce the `optional_option_context` helper to replace the direct
  use of `pd.option_context("future.no_silent_downcasting", True)`,
  ensuring compatibility with older pandas versions that lack this
  option.
- Update the `future.infer_string` test to run only on pandas >= 2.1,
  where it is applicable.

* Add type annotations for optional_option_context

* Make the silent downcasting explicit

* fix: add html metrics support for compare

* fix: add html metrics support for compare

* fix(linting): code formatting

* chore: fix test to include request header

* fix(linting): code formatting

* chore: add unit tests for the compat file

* fix(linting): code formatting

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* chore: add more unit tests for better code coverage

* chore: remove unused code from tests

* fix(linting): code formatting

* chore: fix whitespaces

* chore: test no longer valid

* fix(linting): code formatting

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