* feat(component.rankers): Add HuggingFace API (text-embeddings-inference for rerank) ranker component
* update test flow & doc loaders
* Support run_async for HuggingFaceAPIRanker
* Add release note for HuggingFace API support in component.rankers
* Add release note for HuggingFace API support in component.rankers
* Add release note for HuggingFace API support in component.rankers
* Add release note for HuggingFace API support in component.rankers
* fix:
1. `hugging_face_api.HuggingFaceAPIRanker` rename to `hugging_face_tei.HuggingFaceAPIRanker`
2. HuggingFaceAPIRanker: use our Secret API for token
3. add the missing modules for `docs/pydoc/config/rankers_api.yml`
4. added function `async_request_with_retry` for `haystack/utils/requests_utils.py` and added unittest on `test/utils/test_requests_utils.py`
4. HuggingFaceAPIRanker: refactor the retry function to support configuration based on attempts and status code.
5. HuggingFaceAPIRanker: refactor the test into unit tests using mocks
* fix(HuggingFaceTEIRanker): change the token check logic to use the resolve_value method.
* fix(format): run `hatch run format`
* fix:
- Force keyword-only arguments in __init__ method by adding *,
- Clarify token docstring that it's not always required
- Copy documents to avoid modifying original objects
- Remove test file from slow workflow
- Add monkeypatch eånvironment variable cleanup in tests
- Fix missing module in rankers_api.yml and sort modules alphabetically
- Remove unnecessary test info from release notes
* fix HuggingFaceTEIRanker:
- "None" of "Optional[Secret]" has no attribute "resolve_value"
- run/run_async: too many parameters
* fix(HuggingFaceTEIRanker) :Revise the docstring of the HuggingFaceTEIRanker, improve the parameter descriptions, ensure consistency and clarity. Add error handling information to enhance the readability of the API response.
* fix:unit test for HuggingFaceTEIRanker raise message
* fix fmt
* minor refinements
* refine release note
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Co-authored-by: anakin87 <stefanofiorucci@gmail.com>