diff --git a/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/processor/assignment/TaskTopicPartition.java b/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/processor/assignment/TaskTopicPartition.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.assignment;
+
+import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.Set;
+import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartition;
+
+/**
+ * This is a simple container class used during the assignment process to distinguish
+ * TopicPartitions type. Since the assignment logic can depend on the type of topic we're
+ * looking at, and the rack information of the partition, this container class should have
+ * everything necessary to make informed task assignment decisions.
+ */
+public interface TaskTopicPartition {
+    /**
+     *
+     * @return the {@code TopicPartition} for this task.
+     */
+    TopicPartition topicPartition();
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @return whether the underlying topic is a source topic or not. Source changelog topics
+     *         are both source topics and changelog topics.
+     */
+    boolean isSource();
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @return whether the underlying topic is a changelog topic or not. Source changelog topics
+     *         are both source topics and changelog topics.
+     */
+    boolean isChangelog();
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @return the broker rack ids on which this topic partition resides. If no information could
+     *         be found, this will return an empty optional value.
+     */
+    Optional<Set<String>> rackIds();
+}
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.assignment;
+
+import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.Set;
+import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartition;
+import org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.assignment.TaskTopicPartition;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * This is a simple container class used during the assignment process to distinguish
+ * TopicPartitions type. Since the assignment logic can depend on the type of topic we're
+ * looking at, and the rack information of the partition, this container class should have
+ * everything necessary to make informed task assignment decisions.
+ */
+public class DefaultTaskTopicPartition implements TaskTopicPartition {
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DefaultTaskTopicPartition.class);
+
+    private final TopicPartition topicPartition;
+    private final boolean isSourceTopic;
+    private final boolean isChangelogTopic;
+    private final Optional<Set<String>> rackIds;
+
+    public DefaultTaskTopicPartition(final TopicPartition topicPartition,
+                                     final boolean isSourceTopic,
+                                     final boolean isChangelogTopic,
+                                     final Set<String> rackIds) {
+        this.topicPartition = topicPartition;
+        this.isSourceTopic = isSourceTopic;
+        this.isChangelogTopic = isChangelogTopic;
+        this.rackIds = Optional.ofNullable(rackIds);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public TopicPartition topicPartition() {
+        return topicPartition;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isSource() {
+        return isSourceTopic;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isChangelog() {
+        return isChangelogTopic;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Optional<Set<String>> rackIds() {
+        return rackIds;
+    }
+}