processing.run() returns string instead of QgsVectorLayer with QgsProcessingFeatureSourceDefinition as parameter

Question

I try to run qgis:difference on selected features of 2 layers. But the result of my code :

parameters = {'INPUT': QgsProcessingFeatureSourceDefinition(layer1.id(), True),
              'OVERLAY': QgsProcessingFeatureSourceDefinition(layer2.id(), True),
              'OUTPUT': 'memory:'}
differenced = processing.run('qgis:difference', parameters)

is a string output_... instead of a QgsVectorLayer as usual. I have added :

QgsProject.instance().addMapLayer(layer1, False)
QgsProject.instance().addMapLayer(layer2, False)

before but the algorithm doesn't work as I want.

Answer 1

This is how I run it, maybe it can help

diff = processing.runalg("qgis:difference", layer1, layer2, False, None)
result = processing.getObject(diff['OUTPUT'])
# if you want to save it to file
_writer = QgsVectorFileWriter.writeAsVectorFormat(result, 'output_layer.shp', "utf-8", None, "ESRI Shapefile")

layer 1 and layer2 are instances of QgsVectorLayer