Annotation AliasFor suddenly stopped working - spring

Question

I am about to have nervous break down. Things just randomly stops working for no apparent reason.
The question I am asking is have someone encountered similar problems or possibly could help me with my specific problem.
I have basic Spring Boot web application and I have defined end points using GetMapping and Postmapping annotations and I introduced my own annotation. Things worked fine and when looking at GetMapping and PostMapping source they clearly maps some attributes for RequesyMapping using the AliasFor annotation. I am working on code that scan all Controller annotated beans and scan their methods for PermissionRequired annotation. When on is found it tries to find RequestMapping annotation and get the path(s) from it. The path(s) are empty and only the method type from GetMapping is present. It all worked fine for sometime, but then I typed more code and it stopped working, I am just wondering why.
Here are some code examples:
The method that tries to scan method with specific annotation:
#Bean
public Set<Pair<String, String>> requiredPermissions(ApplicationContext ac)
{
LOG.trace("Configuring required permissions");
if (ac != null)
{
for (String bean : ac.getBeanNamesForAnnotation(Controller.class))
{
for (Method m : ac.getAutowireCapableBeanFactory().getType(bean).getDeclaredMethods())
{
RequiresPermission rp = m.getAnnotation(RequiresPermission.class);
if (rp != null)
{
RequestMapping rm = AnnotationUtils.getAnnotation(m, RequestMapping.class);
if (rm != null)
{
LOG.trace("=============================================== Bean method {}[{}] annotation: {}", rm.path(), rp.value(), rm);
}
}
}
}
}
Set<Pair<String, String>> req = new HashSet<>();
req.add(Pair.of("/login", "GET"));
req.add(Pair.of("/login", "POST"));
// TODO: Scan methods
Method[] mtds = {};
for (Method m : mtds)
{
RequiresPermission rp = m.getAnnotation(RequiresPermission.class);
if (rp != null)
{
RequestMapping rm = m.getAnnotation(RequestMapping.class);
if (rm != null)
{
for (RequestMethod remet : rm.method())
{
for (String path : rm.path())
{
Pair<String, String> p = Pair.of(path, remet.toString().toUpperCase());
LOG.trace("Found URI requiring permission {}", p);
req.add(p);
}
}
}
}
}
return req;
}
The custom annotation:
#Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
#Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public #interface RequiresPermission
{
String value() default "";
}
The controller class:
#Controller
public class PermissionedController
{
#GetMapping("/permmisioned/{param}")
#RequiresPermission("perm1:perm2")
protected String permissioned()
{
return "";
}
Yes there are typos and lines missing etc. But I am too tired (fatiqued) to fix those issues. This is quite simple and it should basically work, but it doesnt. Sorry, but no gist maybe someday if I am feeling better, but I doubt it. I could do with a vacation, but you do not get vacation from neurological disease.