Unable to bulk insert using NHibernate - nhibernate

Question

I've tried adding bulk inserting to my application, but the Batcher is still NonBatchingBatcher with a BatchSize of 1.
This is using C#3, NH3RC1 and MySql 5.1
I've added this to my SessionFactory
<property name="adonet.batch_size">100</property>
And my code goes pretty much like this
var session = SessionManager.GetStatelessSession(type);
var tx = session.BeginTransaction();
session.Insert(instance);
I'm using HILO identity generation for the instances in question, but not for all instances on the database. The SessionFactory.OpenStatelessSession doesn't take a type, so it can't really know it can do batching on this type, or...?
After some digging into NHibernate, I found something in SettingsFactory.CreateBatcherFactory that might give some additional info
// It defaults to the NonBatchingBatcher
System.Type tBatcher = typeof (NonBatchingBatcherFactory);
// Environment.BatchStrategy == "adonet.factory_class", but I haven't
// defined this in my config file
string batcherClass = PropertiesHelper.GetString(Environment.BatchStrategy, properties, null);
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(batcherClass))
{
if (batchSize > 0)
{
// MySqlDriver doesn't implement IEmbeddedBatcherFactoryProvider,
// so it still uses NonBatchingFactory
IEmbeddedBatcherFactoryProvider ebfp = connectionProvider.Driver as IEmbeddedBatcherFactoryProvider;
Could my configuration be wrong?
<hibernate-configuration xmlns="urn:nhibernate-configuration-2.2" >
<session-factory name="my application name">
<property name="adonet.batch_size">100</property>
<property name="connection.driver_class">NHibernate.Driver.MySqlDataDriver</property>
<property name="connection.connection_string">my connection string
</property>
<property name="dialect">NHibernate.Dialect.MySQL5Dialect</property>
<property name="proxyfactory.factory_class">NHibernate.ByteCode.Castle.ProxyFactoryFactory, NHibernate.ByteCode.Castle</property>
<!-- To avoid "The column 'Reserved Word' does not belong to the table : ReservedWords" -->
<property name="hbm2ddl.keywords">none</property>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Answer 1

I know this question is a year old, but there is a NuGet package that adds MySQL batching functionality to NHibernate. The reason that it's not baked directly into NHibernate is that the functionality required a reference to the MySQL.Data assembly, and the dev team didn't want the dependency.

Answer 2

IIRC, batching is currently supported for Oracle and SqlServer only.
As almost any other aspect of NH, this is extensible, so you can write your own IBatcher/IBatcherFactory and inject them via configuration.
Sidenote: current version of NH is 3.0 GA.

Answer 3

Really old question but...let's be completely correct
Another reason for batching not working can be use of stateless session (as in your case). Stateless session does not support batching. From documentation:
The insert(), update() and delete() operations defined by the
StatelessSession interface are considered to be direct database
row-level operations, which result in immediate execution of a SQL
INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE respectively. Thus, they have very different
semantics to the Save(), SaveOrUpdate() and Delete() operations
defined by the ISession interface.