Provide a `to_dict` method

I think `to_dict` would be a clone of `to_json` that calls [`MessageToDict`](https://googleapis.dev/python/protobuf/latest/google/protobuf/json_format.html#google.protobuf.json_format.MessageToDict) instead of `MessageToJson`.

https://github.com/googleapis/proto-plus-python/blob/cd9003c68bb605654b41c711fea08c9403905917/proto/message.py#L331-L348

Currently if you want to turn an existing message into a dict you have to go through JSON.  Prompted by discussion in https://github.com/googleapis/python-memcache/issues/19.
```py
import json

from google.cloud import memcache

# to json
instance = memcache.Instance(name="projects/project/locations/location/instances/instance")
instance_json = memcache.Instance.to_json(instance)
# to dict
instance_dict = json.loads(instance_json)
```




	def to_json(cls, instance, *, use_integers_for_enums=True) -> str:
	"""Given a message instance, serialize it to json

	Args:
	instance: An instance of this message type, or something
	compatible (accepted by the type's constructor).
	use_integers_for_enums (Optional(bool)): An option that determines whether enum
	values should be represented by strings (False) or integers (True).
	Default is True.

	Returns:
	str: The json string representation of the protocol buffer.
	"""
	return MessageToJson(
	cls.pb(instance),
	use_integers_for_enums=use_integers_for_enums,
	including_default_value_fields=True,
	)

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