Added tests for CatalogTable.as_list_of_dicts (ersilia-os#1319)

* Implemented test case with empty and standard input.

test/inputs/catalog_samples.json

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+[
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1579",
+        "Slug": "metabokiller",
+        "Title": "Carcinogenic potential of metabolites and small molecules"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos157v",
+        "Slug": "grover-freesolv",
+        "Title": "Hydration free energy of small molecules in water"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos18ie",
+        "Slug": "antibiotics-ai",
+        "Title": "Substructure-based search of novel antibiotics"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1af5",
+        "Slug": "molgrad-caco2",
+        "Title": "Coloring molecules for Caco-2 cell permeability"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1amn",
+        "Slug": null,
+        "Title": "3D pharmacophore descriptor"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1amr",
+        "Slug": "grover-bbbp",
+        "Title": "Blood-brain barrier penetration"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1bba",
+        "Slug": null,
+        "Title": "GeoGNN Molecular Representation Prediction"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1d7r",
+        "Slug": "small-world-zinc",
+        "Title": "Small World Zinc search"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1mxi",
+        "Slug": "smiles-pe",
+        "Title": "SmilesPE: tokenizer algorithm for SMILES, DeepSMILES, and SELFIES"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1n4b",
+        "Slug": "hdac3-inh",
+        "Title": "Identifying HDAC3 inhibitors"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1noy",
+        "Slug": "chembl-sampler",
+        "Title": "ChEMBL Molecular Sampler"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1pu1",
+        "Slug": "cardiotox-dictrank",
+        "Title": "Cardiotoxicity Classifier"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1ut3",
+        "Slug": "molfeat-usrcat",
+        "Title": "USR descriptors with pharmacophoric constraints"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1vms",
+        "Slug": "chembl-multitask-descriptor",
+        "Title": "Multi-target prediction based on ChEMBL data"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos1xje",
+        "Slug": "biogpt-embeddings",
+        "Title": "BioGPT embeddings"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos21q7",
+        "Slug": "inter_dili",
+        "Title": "InterDILI: drug-induced injury prediction"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos22io",
+        "Slug": "idl-ppbopt",
+        "Title": "Human Plasma Protein Binding (PPB) of Compounds"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos238c",
+        "Slug": "mesh-therapeutic-use",
+        "Title": "MeSH therapeutic use based on chemical structure"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos2401",
+        "Slug": "scaffold-decoration",
+        "Title": "Scaffold decoration"
+    },
+    {
+        "Identifier": "eos24ci",
+        "Slug": "drugtax",
+        "Title": "DrugTax: Drug taxonomy"
+    }
+]

test/test_catalog.py

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+import json
+import os
+import pytest
+from ersilia.hub.content.catalog import CatalogTable
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def catalog_samples():
+    file_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'inputs', 'catalog_samples.json')
+    with open(file_path, 'r') as f:
+        samples = json.load(f)
+    return samples
+
+def test_as_list_of_dicts(catalog_samples):
+    columns = ['Identifier', 'Slug', 'Title']
+
+    # Test with standard catalog samples
+    catalog_table = CatalogTable(data=[list(item.values()) for item in catalog_samples], columns=columns)
+    result = catalog_table.as_list_of_dicts()
+    assert result == catalog_samples, "The result does not match the expected catalog samples"
+
+    # Test with empty catalog data
+    catalog_table_empty = CatalogTable(data=[], columns=columns)
+    result_empty = catalog_table_empty.as_list_of_dicts()
+    assert result_empty == [], "The result should be an empty list for empty input data"