fix: Processing URL and namespace replacement

Author: adwk67

.scripts/update_refs.sh

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ echo "$MESSAGE"
 # shellcheck disable=SC2016 # We intentionally don't want to expand the variable.
 find demos stacks -type f \
   -exec grep --color=always -l githubusercontent {} \; \
-  -exec sed -i -E 's#(stackabletech/demos)/main/#\1/\${UPDATE_BRANCH_REF}/#' {} \; \
+  -exec sed -i -E 's#(stackabletech/demos)/(refs/heads/)?main/#\1/\${UPDATE_BRANCH_REF}/#' {} \; \
 | prepend "\t"
 
 # Now, for all modified files, we can use envsubst

demos/signal-processing/create-nifi-ingestion-job.yaml

@@ -87,12 +87,13 @@ data:
     service_login(username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD)
     print("Logged in")
 
-    # This file path needs adjustment for versioned demos on release branch
-    response = requests.get("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stackabletech/demos/refs/heads/main/demos/signal-processing/DownloadAndWriteToDB.json")
+    # This URL must keep the "stackabletech/demos/main/" form (not "refs/heads/main") so that
+    # .scripts/update_refs.sh can rewrite it to the release branch at release time.
+    response = requests.get("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stackabletech/demos/main/demos/signal-processing/DownloadAndWriteToDB.json")
 
     filename = "/tmp/DownloadAndWriteToDB.json"
-    with open(filename, "wb") as f:
-        f.write(response.content)
+    with open(filename, "w") as f:
+        f.write(response.text.replace("{{ NAMESPACE }}", os.environ["NAMESPACE"]))
 
     pg_id = get_root_pg_id()