how does initial-content work?

[J Aaron Farr]

I'm trying to figure out loading initial-content from a bundle, but I'm
having a bit of trouble.

First, if I understand correctly, if I change files under my
initial-content directory and then reinstall the bundle, they *don't*
change in the repository, right?

Second, I was playing around with the espblog sample, to see if I
understand things correctly.  I added the following file:

   
espblog/src/main/resources/initial-content/content/espblog/posts/first_post.json
 

that looks like this:

    {
    "jcr:primaryType":"nt:unstructured",
    "posttext":"I'd like this post to be initial content.",
    "title":"First post"
    }

And when I deploy this bundle, the post is loaded where I expect:

   http://localhost:8080/content/espblog/posts/first_post.html

But, this URL no longer works:

   http://gandalf.local:8080/content/espblog/posts.list.html

and I believe that's because 'posts' is not a sling:Folder:

    Resource dumped by HtmlRendererServlet    
    Resource path: /content/espblog/posts
    Resource metadata: {sling.resolutionPath=/content/espblog/posts, 
sling.resolutionPathInfo=.list.html}
    Resource type: sling:Folder    
    Resource super type: -
    Resource properties   
    jcr:created: java.util.GregorianCalendar...
    jcr:primaryType: sling:Folder


So, if that's not the way to load the espblog with some initial blog
posts, what is?

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