Revert of [Telemetry] Switch clients to new JavaScript API (batch 5)

telemetry/telemetry/util/js_template.py

Index: telemetry/telemetry/util/js_template.py
diff --git a/telemetry/telemetry/util/js_template.py b/telemetry/telemetry/util/js_template.py
index 8e23f5c4c91b681487fbbad01d4f331dff3479d3..c167ebc3afa1922baed36966e49d940cd65a4f4b 100644
--- a/telemetry/telemetry/util/js_template.py
+++ b/telemetry/telemetry/util/js_template.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 
 RE_REPLACEMENT_FIELD = re.compile(r'{{(?P<field_spec>[^}]*)}}')
-RE_FIELD_IDENTIFIER = re.compile(r'(?P<modifier>[@*])?(?P<name>\w+)$')
+RE_FIELD_IDENTIFIER = re.compile(r'(?P<modifier>@)?(?P<name>\w+)$')
 
 
 def RenderValue(value):
@@ -19,24 +19,19 @@
   """Helper method to interpolate Python values into JavaScript snippets.
 
   Placeholders in the template, field names enclosed in double curly braces,
-  are replaced with the value of the corresponding named argument.
-
-  Prefixing a field name with '*' causes the value, expected to be a
-  sequence of individual values, to be all interpolated and separated by
-  commas.
-
-  Prefixing a field name with '@' causes the value to be inserted literally.
+  are replaced with the value of the corresponding named argument. Prefixing
+  a field name with '@' causes the value to be inserted literally.
 
 
   For example:
 
     js_template.Render(
-      'var {{ @var_name }} = f({{ x }}, {{ *args }});',
-      var_name='foo', x=42, args=('hello', 'there'))
+      'var {{ @var_name }} = f({{ x }}, {{ y }});',
+      var_name='foo', x=42, y='hello')
 
   Returns:
 
-    'var foo = f(42, "hello", "there");'
+    'var foo = f(42, "hello");'
 
   Args:
     template: A string with a JavaScript template, tagged with {{ fields }}
@@ -57,8 +52,6 @@
       if not isinstance(value, str):
         raise ValueError('Literal value for %s must be a string' % field_spec)
       return value
-    elif field.group('modifier') == '*':
-      return ', '.join(RenderValue(v) for v in value)
     else:
       return RenderValue(value)